[Long-term observations on cervical carcinoma IIb patients with preoperative intra-arterial chemotherapy]

Seventy-four cases of cervical carcinoma IIb were treated by radical surgery. Among them 38 patients had received additionally preoperative intra-arterial chemotherapy. The ten and five-year survival rate of those receiving preoperative intra-arterial chemotherapy were 62.5 and 73.3% respectively, while in the group without preoperative intra arterial chemotherapy, the ten and five-year survival rate were 21.4 and 38.9% respectively. The pathological picture of them were studied. The tissue destruction was found more severe and the cellular immune reactions around the tumor foci increased in cases receiving preoperative chemotherapy as compared with those without. The mechanism of tissue reactions related to chemotherapy was discussed.