Preoperative prognostic variables and the impact of postoperative adjuvant therapy on the outcomes of stage IB or II cervical carcinoma patients with or without pelvic lymph node metastases

Abstract

A model containing assessable pretreatment variables for predicting the prognoses of patients with early stage cervical carcinoma was formulated. Subsets of patients for whom postoperative chemotherapy or radiotherapy might be beneficial were identified. The data from this retrospective review may be useful when future prospective trials of the treatment of early stage cervical carcinoma are designed.