Abstract
The Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology (JSGO) Guidelines 2017 for the Treatment of Uterine Cervical Cancer are for the purpose of providing standard treatment strategies for cervical cancer, indicating treatment methods currently considered appropriate for cervical cancer, minimizing variances in treatment methods among institutions, improving the safety of treatment and prognosis of diseases, reducing the economic and psychosomatic burden of patients by promoting performance of appropriate treatment, and enhancing mutual understanding between patients and healthcare professionals. The guidelines were prepared through consensus of the JSGO Guideline Committee, based on careful review of evidence gathered through the literature searches and in view of the medical health insurance system and actual clinical practice situations in Japan. The guidelines comprise eight chapters and five algorithms. The main features of the 2017 revision are as follows: (1) evidence was collected using a search formula and with cooperation of the Japan Library Association. The bibliographical search formula was placed at the end of the book; (2) regarding clinical questions (CQs) where evidence or clinical inspection in Japan was lacking, opinions of the Guidelines Committee were described as “proposals for future directions”; (3) cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 3 and adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) were treated as a cervical precancerous lesion; (4) the CQs of endoscopic surgery, radical trachelectomy, and sentinel node biopsy were newly added in Chapter 3, “primary treatment for stage IB–II cervical cancer”; and (5) the CQ about hormone replacement therapy after cancer treatment was newly established. Each recommendation is accompanied by a classification of recommendation categories based on the consensus reached by the Guideline Committee members. Here, we present the English version of the JSGO Guidelines 2017 for the Treatment of Uterine Cervical Cancer.
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Abbreviations
- AIS:
-
Adenocarcinoma in situ
- CCRT:
-
Concurrent chemoradiotherapy
- CIN:
-
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia
- COIs:
-
Conflicts of interests
- CQs:
-
Clinical questions
- CTV:
-
Clinical target volume
- EORTC:
-
European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer
- FIGO:
-
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Gy:
-
Gray
- HPV:
-
Human papillomavirus
- HRT:
-
Hormone replacement therapy
- HSIL:
-
High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion
- IMRT:
-
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
- JCOG:
-
Japan Clinical Oncology Group
- JGOG:
-
Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group
- JSCO:
-
Japan Society of Clinical Oncology
- JSGO:
-
Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology
- LSIL:
-
Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion
- Minds:
-
Medical Information Network Distribution Service
- NAC:
-
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- NCCN:
-
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- PTV:
-
Planning target volume
- QOL:
-
Quality of life
- RCT:
-
Randomized controlled trial
- RTOG:
-
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
- SIL:
-
Squamous intraepithelial lesion
- TC:
-
Paclitaxel plus carboplatin
- TP:
-
Paclitaxel plus cisplatin
- WBRT:
-
Whole-brain radiation therapy
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
- 3D-CRT:
-
3 dimensional-conformal radiotherapy
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Acknowledgements
We thank the Japanese Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG), the Japan Society of Clinical Oncology (JSCO), the Japan Society of Gynecologic and Obstetric Endoscopy and Minimally Invasive Therapy, the Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group (JGOG), the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG), the Japan Society of Pathology (JSP), the Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology (JASTRO) for their comments and contributions throughout the project. We also acknowledge the clerical and technical assistance by Ms Toshie Yasuda of JSGO and Ms Yuriko Adachi of Kanehara CO., LTD.
Members of Guidelines Committee (alphabetical order)
Masanori Kaneuchi, Hidetaka Katabuchi, Mikio Mikami, Satoru Nagase, Tsutomu Tabata. Yasuhiro Udagawa, Nobuo Yaegashi.
Members of guidelines drafting committee (alphabetical order)
Tsukasa Baba, Yasuhiko Ebina, Takayuki Enomoto, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Yasuyuki Hirashima, Takashi Iwata, Shingo Kato, Noriyuki Katsumata, Atsumi Kojima, Tetsuji Kurokawa, Masaki Mandai, Yoshiki Mikami, Toshinari Muramatsu, Yutaka Nagai, Hidekatsu Nakai, Kentaro Nakayama, Hitoshi Niikura, Katsutoshi Oda, Hideyuki Ohtake, Masayuki Sekine, Muneaki Shimada, Tsutomu Tabata, Kiyomi Takaishi, Kiyoshi Takamatsu, Kazuhiro Takehara, Hironori Tashiro, Takafumi Toita, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Masanori Yasuda, Kiyoshi Yoshino.
Members of guidelines evaluation committee (alphabetical order)
Daisuke Aoki, Yoichi Aoki, Takuma Fujii, Keiichi Fujiwara, Toru Hachisuga, Toshio Hamatani, Kenichi Hrano, Kazuhiko Ino, Atsuko Itakura, Kiyoshi Ito, Osamu Iwanari, Seiryu Kamoi, Takahiro Kasamatsu, Naoki Kawamura, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Kodaira, Kaneyuki Kubushiro, Etsuko Miyagi, Mika Mizuno, Kenichiro Morishige, Tetsuro Nagasaka, Toshiaki Nakamura, Masahide Ohmichi, Aikou Okamoto, Takashi Onda, Tsuyoshi Saito, Toshiaki Saito, Noriaki Sakuragi, Toyomi Sato, Tadashi Shiraishi, Toru Sugiyama, Nao Suzuki, Mitsuaki Suzuki, Masashi Takano, Nobuhiro Takeshima, Takashi Uno, Kimio Ushijima, Yoh Watanabe, Hiroko Yokota, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa.
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This article originally appeared in Japanese as Shikyu keigan chiryo gaidorain 2017 nen ban, published by Kanehara, Tokyo, 2017.
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Ebina, Y., Mikami, M., Nagase, S. et al. Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology guidelines 2017 for the treatment of uterine cervical cancer. Int J Clin Oncol 24, 1–19 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10147-018-1351-y
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