Morbidity and survival patterns in patients after radical hysterectomy and postoperative adjuvant pelvic radiotherapy

The Effect of Nonperitonization and Laparoscopic Lymphadenectomy for Minimizing the Incidence of Lymphocyst Formation After Radical Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer

“…17 However, there have been few reports about lymphocyst formation after postoperative radiotherapy. 18,19 It may originate from rare incidence and delayed occurrence of postradiotherapy-related lymphocyst.…”

Adjuvant small field pelvic radiation for patients with high risk, Stage IB lymph node negative cervix carcinoma after radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection

“…6 -8 This makes it attractive theoretically to offer adjuvant pelvic radiation to the lymph node negative patients who are at high risk of local recurrence, because there should be a realistic expectation of improving overall survival by decreasing the pelvic recurrence rate. 6,9,10 Two problems have to be addressed before implementing such a strategy. The first is to identify the group of lymph node negative patients who are at high risk of recurrence so that the others can be spared adjuvant therapy.…”

Cervical Carcinoma: Postoperative Radiotherapy Fifteen-Year Experience in a Norwegian Health Region

“…3 Of the 251 women undergoing surgery, indication for postoperative radiotherapy was found in 75 (30%) of them, which is within the range of 2 comparable studies reporting 22% 4 and 37.9%. 5 Landoni et al, 6 however, reported a higher figure of 64% in the surgical arm of their randomized study.…”