[Radiotherapy of cervical carcinoma]

Refering to the "Annual Report on the Results of Treatment in Gynecological Cancer" it is pointed out, that there is still no agreement concerning the kind of treatment of stage I and a part of stage II patients. In stage I patients most of the clinics use primarily operation. In stage II still an important number of the patients are operated, too. There is no certain difference in the 5-years figures between operation and radiation treatment. In stage III and IV patients mostly get radiation treatment. In the radiation treatment there is a trend to use afterloading instead of Radium. In external radiation more and more clinics use accelerators. Using these new application forms there is no evidence that the indication rather for primary operation or radiation treatment would have changed. There is still a slight increase of the 5-years figures but at the same time there is also a tendency for increase of the better stages.