Lymph node metastases in carcinoma of the cervix uteri: response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and its impact on survival.

One hundred and sixty-nine patients with squamous cancer of the cervix uteri treated with three courses of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with the modified VBP scheme are presented. All were subjected to a Wertheim-Meigs operation with paraaortic lymph-adenectomy. The incidence of lymph node metastases is analyzed according to clinical stage, tumor volume, residual tumor in the surgical specimen, and clinical response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.