[Treatment of recurrent carcinoma of the uterine cervix]

One hundred thirty seven patients with recurrent carcinoma of the uterine cervix were treated from 1964 through 1985. The primary treatment was surgery in 64 cases and radiation of 73 cases. Treatment consisted of surgery (n = 13) radiotherapy with or without Chinese medicine (n = 92), chemotherapy (n = 26), and chemotherapy plus radiation (n = 6). The mean 5-year survival rate of this series was 40.9%. One patient survived 28 year without tumor. Seven of 13 surgically treated patients were alive and free of disease for 5 to 28 years with an average 5-year survival rate of 53.8%. Thirty recurrent cases following radiotherapy were again treated by radiation, 11 of them (36.7%) were alive for 5 years.