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Fertility-sparing surgery offers similar survival to standard surgery for early-stage cervical cancer patients up to 4 cm. However, larger tumors (>2 cm) undergoing fertility-sparing surgery require careful consideration due to limited data.

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  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Reproductive Medicine

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  • Rising cervical cancer incidence in premenopausal women necessitates fertility-sparing options.
  • Evidence is lacking for optimal tumor size cutoffs for fertility-sparing surgery candidacy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare life expectancy between fertility-sparing surgery and standard surgery based on tumor size (≤4 cm).
  • To assess the probability of adjuvant radiotherapy after fertility-sparing surgery as a function of tumor size.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of National Cancer Database (2006-2018) for stage I cervical cancer patients (≤45 years, tumors ≤4 cm).
  • Propensity-score matching compared fertility-sparing surgery (cone/trachelectomy) with standard surgery (hysterectomy).
  • Flexible parametric and logistic regression models quantified survival differences and adjuvant radiation probability.

Main Results:

  • Similar 5-year life expectancy observed between fertility-sparing and standard surgery across tumor sizes.
  • Life expectancy difference estimates were more precise for smaller tumors (1 cm) than larger tumors (4 cm).
  • Adjuvant radiation probability increased with tumor size, from 5.6% (1 cm) to 37% (4 cm).

Conclusions:

  • Stage I cervical cancer patients (≤4 cm) show similar survival outcomes with fertility-sparing or standard surgery within 5 years.
  • Clinically significant survival differences cannot be ruled out for tumors >2 cm undergoing fertility-sparing surgery due to limited patient numbers.