Radionuclide-guided radical surgery for cervical cancer

Radio-isotope radical operation has been developed in three steps. The rate of complete lymphadenectomies determined by the complete removal of labelled tissue was increased from 52.2% in the first observation period to 67.2% in second and finally to 75.8% in the third observation period. Although no improvement could be shown in the survival rate in histological Stage II carcinomas, a marked reduction of recurrence mortality in histological Stage I could be observed: from 15.8% in the first observation period to 12.3% in the second and finally to 8.4% in the third observation period.