Clinical Research Directory

Radiomics and Molecular Classification in Endometrial Cancer

Molecular/genomic profiling is the most accurate method to assess the prognosis of endometrial cancer patients. Interestingly, the adoption of radiomics showed important results, across various oncologic specialties. Radiomic allows extracting mineable high-dimensional data from clinical images, thus providing a number of noteworthy information of the tumor tissues. We aim to correlate radiomic features obtained from ultrasound images with the molecular/genomic profiling to identify new hallmarks for stratification of endometrial cancer patients into different classes of risk The central hypothesis is that combining radiomic features might allow identifying various classes of risk for endometrial cancer. The rationale for the proposed research is that once validated, radiomics applied to ultrasonographic images would be an effective, innovative, and cheap method for tailor operative and postoperative treatment modality in endometrial cancer.

The Role of Micrometastasis and Isolated Tumor Cells (ITCs) in Endometrial and Cervical Cancer. A Multicenter Study.

The role of small-volume lymph node disease (ITC and micro metastases) among patients with endometrial or cervical cancer submitted to sentinel node (SLN) procedure is not clearly defined. This study was designed to create a dataset of patients with lymph nodal disease. Data on type and volume of lymph nodal disease, therapeutic choices and oncological outcomes (DFS, OS, recurrence rate) will be collected and analyzed. This will allow to define the groups of patients who may need or for whom it can be avoided any adjuvant treatment on the basis of lymph node status.