Carcinoma of the cervix stage IV treatment problems

Sixty-seven patients with cervical cancer stage IV were treated in 1967-72. Only 21 received a complete course of radiotherapy and none received surgery or chemotherapy. Two patients had mobile tumors with extension to the bladder. Both died from distant metastases without local recurrences. Two patients with metastases to the lymph nodes in the groin, died within 3 and 4 years, respectively. All the other patients with distant metastases survived less than 2 years.