Concurrent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer: Analysis of a single institutional 10-year experience

2007 
16056 Background: The purpose of this study was to report the feasibility and efficacy of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for the locally advanced cervical cancer in our institute. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 147 patients (stage Ib: 9, II: 82, III: 80, and IVa: 7) with squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix treated with CCRT. Cisplatin (20mg/m2/day) was administered for 5 days every 3 weeks for a median of three courses (range: 1–5 courses) during radiotherapy (RT). The patients with paraaortic and/or common iliac lymphadenopathy were excluded. RT consisted of pelvic external beam RT (EBRT) with 40Gy/20 fractions followed by high-dose rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) with 18Gy/3 fractions and pelvic EBRT with 10Gy/5 fractions using a midline block. Late complications were graded by the RTOG/EORTC criteria. Results: The 5-year actuarial overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and pelvic relapse-free survival were 78.5%, 70.7%, and 78.0%, respectively. The 5-year OS by the disease stage w...
    • Correction
    • Source
    • Cite
    • Save
    • Machine Reading By IdeaReader
    0
    References
    0
    Citations
    NaN
    KQI
    []