Survival of patients with untreated cervical carcinoma.

Patients infrequently present with advanced-stage cervical malignancy in the United States, where access to care and aggressive screening, detection, and treatment regimens are the standard. Neglected cancer is more likely in countries with underdeveloped healthcare delivery systems; yet in this new millennium, we foresee not only an aging population with modern medicine able to prolong life expectancy, but also attentive screening regimens even amid the older old. Taking into account common comorbid illness from which patients used to die, informed consent in making a treatment in the robust and frail elderly becomes a new challenge.