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. 2011 Jun 15;2011(6):CD001040. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001040.pub2

DePalo 1993.

Methods Multi‐centre RCT
Participants 771 women randomised
 Women with stage 1 with no myometrial involvement did not receive any adjuvant treatment 138 (17.9%)
Median age ranged between 58 and 61 across all MPA and no MPA comparisons (women with R1‐R3).
 601 (83%) women had adenocarcinoma histological type, 80 (11%) had adenoacanthoma, 4 (0.5%) had clear cell, 29 (4%) had adenosquamous and 4 (0.5%) women had undifferentiated histology.
399 (55.5%) had myometrial invasion classified as M1, 192 (26.75%) as M2 and 127 (17.75%) classified as M3.
Interventions Oral Medroxy progesterone 100mg twice daily for 1 year
Outcomes Overall death rates
 Endometrial cancer deaths
 Intercurrent deaths
 Relapse from disease
Adverse events (only reported in the treatment arm)
Notes Patient withdrawals; disease more than stage 1 on review, patient refusal, intercurrent disease
 Data only available for intention to treat analysis
 Progestagen group 327 women
 Control group 370 women
 Duration of follow‐up 84 months
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Concealment of allocation is most likely adequate because there was central randomisation, but it is uncertain, "Quality control of data was performed at a centralised data centre".
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk % analysed: 718/718 (100%)
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to assess whether an important risk of bias exists