[Treatment and treatment results in invasive cervix cancer in Berlin, capital of East Germany, 1970-1978].
The incidence of cervical cancer in Berlin, capital of the GDR, decreased in the period 1970-78 from 52.4 to 38.9 per 100.000. The percentage of the curable stage I increased from 46% to approximately 60%. A remarkable increase of surgical treatment till old ages characterizes the treatment situation. In younger ages clearly the surgical treatment dominates. In stage I a the combined surgical-radiotherapy was replaced by the surgical treatment, the percentage of the sole radiotherapy remained constant. In stage I b the percentage of the combined treatment amounts to more than 50% as yet and of the radiation alone to 10%. A relative 5-year survival rate risen from 70% in 1970/71 to 82% in 1973/74 has been observed.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001604:Berlin; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
Behandlung und Behandlungsergebnisse beim invasiven Zervixkarzinom in Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR, von 1970-1978.