PMID: 11903183Mar 21, 2002Paper

Locally advanced cervix cancer: chemotherapy prior to definitive surgery or radiotherapy. A single institutional experience

Australasian Radiology
C MacLeodI Firth

Abstract

Primary or neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to definitive local therapy has potential advantages for locally advanced cervix cancer. It can downstage a cancer and allow definitive local therapy to be technically possible (surgery), or potentially more effective (radiotherapy). It can also eradicate subclinical systemic metastases. This report reviews a single institution's experience of neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to definitive local therapy for cervix cancer over a 13-year period. One hundred and six patients were treated with this intent. The patients were analysed for their response to chemotherapy, treatment received, survival, relapse and toxicity. The chemotherapy was feasible and the majority of patients had a complete or partial response (58.5%). Eight patients did not proceed to local treatment. Forty-six patients had definitive surgery and 52 had definitive radiotherapy. The 5-year overall survival was 27% and the majority of patients died with disease. The first site of relapse was usually in the pelvis (46.2%). Late complications that required ongoing medical therapy (n=6) or surgical intervention (n=2) were recorded in eight patients (7.5%). On univariate analysis stage (P=0.04), tumour size (P=0.01), lymph node s...Continue Reading

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