[Study of prognostic factors in patients with cervix carcinoma treated by radiotherapy]

One hundred and eighty-one patients who were treated by irradiation only for carcinoma of uterine cervix were analyzed to evaluate for cure or recurrence, by the multidimensional quantification theory II. The cases were also restricted to primary T3b in TNM classification, large tumor volume, squamous cell Ca. for the histology, cure and residual primary or recurred tumor and less than 76 years old at first therapy. In 181 cases, 116 were cure and 65 were residual or recurred cases. Finally, 7 prognostic factors which were consisted fever during treatment, age at the first examination, function of kidney, tumor dose at point A, horizontal inclination of the Tandem, growth type of tumor and reduction of body weight were significantly related to the recurrence.