[A computer filling system for patient records of recurrent and metastatic uterine cervix cancer].
This report describes a computer filing and retrieval system for patient records of uterine cervix cancer which contain a secondary status after first treatment necessitated by residual primary tumor, recurrence after 6 months or more, and metastasis. In 2 working sheets are entered registration number and birth-data, first therapy method, secondary status, topographic locations of recurrence and metastasis, policy and outcome at 5 years after secondary treatment. This information was entered in the computer filing system. The records of 549 patients who were treated between 1961 and 1976, were loaded in to the disk file and magnetic tape of our computer. The 5-year cumulative survival rate of the total cases was 11.7% (1.4% standard error); it was 26.9% (S.E. = 4.4%) for patients that had undergone primary surgery. We found that the longer the interval between first therapy and recurrence, the better was the 5-year survival after secondary treatment (mainly radiotherapy). We conclude that long-term follow-up study is important in patients with uterine cervix cancer, because our 28 cases with recurrence (10% of total cases), were found more than 4-years after the first therapy.
D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003201:Computers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011379:Prognosis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy