title: Stage I cervical carcinoma: local experience in Port Elizabeth with 5-year follow-up.
abstract: Seventeen patients who presented with stage i squamous carcinoma of the cervix between 1969 and 1974 are reviewed. Thirteen of the patients were treated by means of radical irradiation, 3 by Wertheim's hysterectomy and 1 by a simple hysterectomy and postoperative pelvic irradiation. Two patients died 2 years after presentation, 1 from metastases and 1 from unrelated causes. The remaining 15 patients were well with no evidence of malignancy 5 years after presentation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery