BackgroundWe present the largest UK single institute robotic radical hysterectomy (RRH) case series for the management of cervical cancer (CC).MethodsData were collected on women who had a RRH as primary treatment for stage 1b1 CC between December 2009 and December 2018.ResultsNinty women had a robotic hysterectomy. Five‐year follow‐up data were available for 30%. The disease‐free survival at 5 years was 89.6%. Overall survival at 3 and 5 years for death from any cause was 96.1% and 91.4%, respectively. The overall 5‐year survival for death from disease only was 92.8%. Overall survival by tumour size alone showed that women with tumours less than 2 cm had a 98.3% 5‐year survival compared to 83.4% for tumour size greater than 2 cm. Irrespective of tumour size, those that had no evidence of lymphovascular space invasion had a 100% 5‐year survival.ConclusionOur preliminary data supports the oncological safety of RRH in a selective cohort of patients with stage 1b1 CC.
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