A Mayo Clinic study found that a multidisciplinary surgical approach guided by modified Mohs surgery achieved better recurrence-free survival for patients with female extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) when compared with traditional wide local excision (WLE). The findings were recently published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG).
Margin-controlled surgery, including modified Mohs surgery, has previously been shown to improve outcomes in male genital EMPD. The investigators embarked on this study to see if this finding held true for female anatomy.
The Mayo Clinic investigators had observed frequent EMPD recurrences following the traditional surgical approach; thus, they sought a more effective surgical method, according to Kelly H. Bruce, M.D., M.S.