[LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR ENDOMETRIAL CANCER IN PATIENTS OVER 70 YEARS OF AGE]

Surgery is the main method in treatment for endometrial cancer. The complexity of treatment of endometrial cancer patients in elderly age is a result of a large number of comorbidities and, as a consequence, the potential possibility of a large number of intra--and postoperative complications. The article presents the international data and the analysis of own results of a use of laparoscopy in surgical treatment of these patients. A comparison with a group of operations performed by laparotomy is carried out as well as it is evaluated the main intra--and perioperative parameters and also complications, and immediate outcomes of patients treated at the Oncogynecology Department of the N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology.