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Treatment of primary adenocarcinoma of the cervix
Author(s) -
Weiner Seymour,
Wizenberg Morris J.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197506)35:6<1514::aid-cncr2820350606>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - medicine , cervix , adenocarcinoma , radiation therapy , incidence (geometry) , radical surgery , surgery , basal cell , cancer , optics , physics
Between 1956 and 1971, a total of 74 cases of adenocarcinoma of the cervix was treated in the Division of Radiation Therapy of the University of Maryland Hospital. Radical radiation therapy was followed by routine surgery early in the study; after 1967, surgery was used only for radiation failure. The likelihood of local control and 5‐year survival was not improved by the routine addition of surgery to radical radiation, although the incidence of serious complications was markedly elevated. The results of treatment of adenocarcinoma of the cervix by radiation therapy alone are not significantly different from those achieved with squamous cell carcinoma. Surgery should be used as a salvage procedure in case of failure, rather than on a routine basis.