title: Five-year survival (with no evidence of disease) in patients with biopsy-confirmed aortic node metastasis from cervical carcinoma.
abstract: Thirty-one women with biopsy-confirmed aortic node metastases from carcinoma of the uterine cervix were treated with pelvic and para-aortic irradiation. The intestinal complication rate in those patients who received 6,000 rads of split-course irradiation in 8 weeks was 61.9% and only 10.0% in the patients who received primarily 4,400 to 5,000 rads in 4 1/2 to 5 weeks. The 5 year survival rate with no evidence of disease (NED) was only 9.6%, with death rates of 16.1% from complications NED and 74.1% from cancer. Of the nine women with microscopic evidence of aortic node metastasis in clinically negative aortic nodes, two are surviving NED after 5 years and seven have died. Six women had a single, clinically positive aortic node metastasis, and one patient is alive after 5 years NED and five are dead. All 16 women with multiple aortic node metastases died of cervical cancer, including six patients who had 100% resection of the multiple para-aortic node metastases. A plan of management for surgical staging and para-aortic irradiation is outlined.
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*