Recent national trends in pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy in gynecologic oncology fellowship training programs: ACGME data from 2019–2025
Purpose: To investigate trends in surgical experience performing pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomies by gynecologic oncology (GO) fellows in the U.S. Methods: Summary statistics for ACGME GO training programs were obtained from the ACGME public reporting system. The ACGME data only contains this short time frame. For each academic year spanning 2019-2020 through 2024-2025, the national mean procedure count was extracted for pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomies. Results: -aortic and SLN increased from 63 to 96. Conclusions: Gynecologic oncology training experience in performing both pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy has declined. The decline may have implications that extend to training in radical pelvic surgery.
Authors
- Mitchel S. Hoffman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-2411)
- Wenyi Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7875-7404)
- Dennis Chi
- William Cliby
- Daniel Clarke-Pearson
- Karen H Lu
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Moffitt Cancer Center (US)
- University of North Carolina Hospitals (US)
- Mayo Clinic in Florida (US)
- Institute of Bioinformatics (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Gynecologic Oncology Reports
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2026.102088
- Primary Topic
- Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- National Cancer Institute