RT Book, Section
A1 Hoffman, Barbara L.
A1 Schorge, John O.
A1 Halvorson, Lisa M.
A1 Hamid, Cherine A.
A1 Corton, Marlene M.
A1 Schaffer, Joseph I.
SR Print(0)
ID 1171662408
T1 Vaginal Cancer
T2 Williams Gynecology, 4e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260456868
LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1171662408
RD 2024/04/25
AB Cancer  found  in  the  vagina  is  most  likely  metastatic  disease.  Primary  vaginal  carcinoma  is  rare  and  makes  up  less  than  5  percent  of  all  gynecologic  malignancies  (Siegel,  2019).  This  low  incidence  reflects  the  infrequency  with  which  primary  carcinoma  arises  in  the  vagina  and  the  strict  criteria  for  its  diagnosis.  According  to  International  Federation  of  Gynecology  and  Obstetrics  (FIGO)  staging  criteria,  a  vaginal  lesion  that  involves  adjacent  organs  such  as  the  cervix  or  vulva,  by  convention,  is  deemed  primary  cervical  or  vulvar,  respectively  (Pecorelli,  1999).  The  most  common  histologic  type  of  primary  vaginal  cancer  is  squamous  cell  carcinoma,  followed  by  adenocarcinoma  (Platz,  1995).