Carcinoma of the corpus uteri

Rules related to staging: • Corpus cancer is now surgically staged, therefore procedures previously used for determination of stages are no longer applicable (e.g. the findings of fractional curettage to differentiate between Stage I and Stage II). • It is appreciated that there may be a small number of patients with corpus cancer who will be treated primarily with radiation therapy. In these cases, the clinical staging adopted by FIGO in 1971 would still apply, but designation of that staging system would be noted. • Ideally, width of the myometrium should be measured along with the depth of tumor invasion.