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Living with cancer· Appointment prep

Appointment sheet: Uterine carcinosarcoma

One page to bring and write on: your details, the questions for Uterine carcinosarcoma plus your own, the words you may hear, what to bring, the treatments the standard of care names, and room for the answers and agreed next steps. What you type stays in this browser. Print it or save it as a PDF. New to all this? Start with the first 60 days. Orientation, not medical advice.

Tick the questions to print

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Your own questions

Shared with the prep pack, so questions you add there appear here too.

Print or save as PDF

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Appointment sheet

Uterine carcinosarcoma

Prepared with OnCo (onco.cc/prep/uterine-carcinosarcoma/). Orientation, not medical advice; your team knows your case.

My details

Name
Date of appointment
Hospital and clinician
Who is coming with me

What I know, what is unclear, changes to discuss

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What I know so far
What is unclear to me
Changes since last time

My questions

16 on the sheet
Newly diagnosed
  1. 1.What is my exact diagnosis, stage, and grade, and which tests established them?
  2. 2.Which biomarkers have been tested on my tumour (for example p53 immunohistochemistry, HER2 immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation, MMR immunohistochemistry, POLE, Percentage of sarcomatous component and heterologous elements), and what were the results?
  3. 3.Which subtype is my cancer, and does that change the recommended treatment?
  4. 4.Is germline (inherited) genetic testing recommended for me or my family?
Surgery
  1. 5.For my situation (surgery), which of the standard options do you recommend and why?
Adjuvant, all stages
  1. 6.For my situation (adjuvant, all stages), which of the standard options do you recommend and why?
  2. 7.Am I a candidate for Carboplatin, Paclitaxel / nab-paclitaxel, Ifosfamide, and what side effects should I expect?
  3. 8.How do the results of PORTEC-3 apply to someone like me?
Advanced or recurrent
  1. 9.For my situation (advanced or recurrent), which of the standard options do you recommend and why?
  2. 10.Am I a candidate for Dostarlimab, Trastuzumab deruxtecan, Lenvatinib or related drugs, and what side effects should I expect?
  3. 11.How do the results of RUBY / ENGOT-EN6 / GOG-3031 and DESTINY-PanTumor02 apply to someone like me?
Any stage
  1. 12.Are there clinical trials I could join, for example of Trastuzumab deruxtecan, Dostarlimab, WEE1, ATR?
  2. 13.Would a second opinion at a high-volume centre change anything, and can you help arrange it?
  3. 14.What supportive care (symptom control, nutrition, exercise, mental health, financial help) is available from the start?
  4. 15.I read that “No dedicated randomised trials for a tumour that behaves worse than the serous cancers it is grouped with”. How does that affect my plan?
  5. 16.I read that “Whether the sarcomatous component needs different drugs”. How does that affect my plan?

The words I may hear

  • Hysterectomy: Removing the uterus (womb), often with the cervix, tubes and ovaries.

Tests and results to bring

Biomarker results to ask for: p53 immunohistochemistry (abnormal in most), HER2 immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation, MMR immunohistochemistry (deficient in a minority), POLE (rare, favourable), Percentage of sarcomatous component and heterologous elements, CA-125.

Bring copies of scan reports, pathology and blood results, and a list of every medicine and supplement.

The treatments I may be offered

From the standard of care recorded for this cancer; which apply depends on your stage and biomarkers. Ask which the team recommends and why.

Answers and next steps

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What I was told
Agreed next steps, dates and who to call