Recurrent cancer of the cervix following radical hysterectomy and pelvic node dissection

摘要: Forty patients with recurrence following radical surgery for early invasive cancer of the cervix were studied. Fifty-eight percent recurrences observed within first 12 months after and 83% 2 years. The site was found to influence diagnosis, symptomatology, clinical findings, prognosis, cause death, therapy. prognosis recurrent cervical poor, only 5 (13%) surviving free disease One patient is presently alive without more than Patients who did not receive a potentially curative course radiation therapy at time diagnosis had poor prognosis. None managed by exenterative procedures or chemotherapy survived. Guidelines are suggested follow-up primary hysterectomy pelvic node dissection.