Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection (SLND) in Patients With Apparent Early Stage Endometrial Cancer

This is a non-interventional prospective chart review evaluating the clinical utility of SLND for detecting nodal metastasis of early stage endometrial cancer through data collection. Patients who are scheduled to undergo standard-of-care (SOC) surgical staging for EC (sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) via laparotomy, laparoscopy or robotic surgery, ±hysterectomy, ±bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO)) (pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy may (or may not) also be performed in addition to SLND) will be approached for consent. After these patients have completed the above SOC surgical procedures, research staff will review and collect data from their medical charts. For the subset of these patients who are found, during their SOC surgery, to have positive nodes, research staff will continue to review and collect data from their medical charts after their standard of care follow-up visits with their oncologist All of the patients enrolled on this trial are those who were scheduled to have their sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) removed; that is, all patients enrolled on this trial were consented by the research team because they were already scheduled to undergo sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) via laparotomy, laparoscopy or robotic surgery, ±hysterectomy, ±bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO)). As part of this same SOC surgery, some of these patients also may have undergone pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy in addition to SLND. Within the research database built for this study, patients will be classified into risk strata (either low or high risk EC) as per the Modified Mayo Criteria. This classification will be partly based on the SOC post-surgical International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) staging. To establish progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), research staff will intermittently perform medical chart reviews for only those patients with nodal metastasis for a minimum of 2 years (maximum of 6 years).