title: [Is there a place for chemotherapy in the initial treatment of cervical cancer? Review of the literature].
abstract: Despite their high efficiency in treating cancer of the uterine cervix, surgery and radiotherapy can not cure (local and/or metastatic disease) a certain number of patients with initially adverse risk factors, mostly local or regionally advanced cervical carcinoma (stage III-IVA) or early stage (IB-II) disease with bulky primary lesion or involved regional nodes. Since the 1980s, many investigators have tried to determine whether or not there is any benefit in introducing chemotherapy earlier in the therapeutic plan for these patients: either initially before surgery or radiotherapy (neoadjuvant), or during radiotherapy (concurrent), or after local treatment (adjuvant). In this review we seek to sum up the published data available and to determine if at present there is a place for chemotherapy in the initial treatment of cervical cancer.
authors.affiliation: Consultation de gynécologie médicale, institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lhommé
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schreinerova
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Delorme
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Murawa-Durand
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chazard
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D002945:Cisplatin
vernacular_title: La chimiothérapie a-t-elle une place lors du traitement initial des cancers du col utérin? Revue de la littérature.