Development of paraaortic lymph nodes metastases in carcinoma of the cervix: analysis of treatment outcome.

Purpose: To evaluate treatment outcomes in patients with cervical cancer and paraaortic lymph nodes metastases using radiotherapy (RT), chemotherapy (CT), or chemo/radiotherapy (CT/RT).

Patients And Methods: From 184 stage IIB-IVA patients with cervical cancer who were randomly treated with RT or CT/RT, 15 relapsed after the initial therapy only in the paraaortic lymph nodes. The median age of these 15 patients was 53 years (range 30-69).