[Invalidity after radiotherapy of the cervix carcinoma, stages II and III (author's transl)]

At least five years after combined radiotherapy of the cervix carcinoma, stage II and III, 67 patients were examined in order to find out whether they were invalid or not. Despite of conventional percutaneous radiotherapy there were no cutaneous damages. About half of all patients had late lesions of the bladder and the bowel. The capacity for work was limited only in a third of all patients. The lesions of the vagina and the consequences of the partly precocious postmenopause were judged to be the most serious damages. Only one quarter of all patients had a normal sex life.