CERVICAL-CARCINOMA IN PREGNANCY

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 58  (5) , 584-589
Abstract
Forty-one cases of invasive carcinoma of the cervix associated with pregnancy that were treated from 1961-1979 were reviewed. Postpartum patients were included in the study if the diagnosis of cancer was made within 6 mo. of delivery. Three cases of clinical stage IA disease treated by Wertheim-Taussig hysterectomy had a 5-yr survial rate of 100%. There were 22 cases of stage IB disease with a 5-yr actuarial survival rate of 90%. Four patients with stage IB were treated by radiotherapy, 17 by Wertheim-Taussig hysterectomy and 1 by a combination of pelvic irradiation, cesium application and simple extrafaxial total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for a barrel-shaped cervix. Twelve cases of stage II disease treated by radiotherapy had a 5-yr actuarial survival rate of 24%. There were no survivors in 2 cases of stages III and IV disease. The 5-yr actuarial survival rate of patients with stage I carcinoma of the cervix associated with pregnancy is not statistically different from that of nonpregnant patients, regardless of the method of treatment.

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