Abstract:
Objective To study the short-term curative effect of HT and IMRT on early cervical cancer after operation and its prognostic factors.
Methods Of the 270 cervical cancer patients admitted to our hospital from July 30, 2008 to January 31, 2013, 186 underwent HT and 84 underwent IMRT. Their pelvic lymph nodes drainage area, high risk lymph nodes drainage area, and residual tumor or metastatic lymph nodes area were irradiated at the dose of DT 46-50 Gy/23-28 F, DT 54-60 Gy/25-28 F and DT 64-66 Gy/25-28 F, respectively. Their vaginal wall received 2-4 times of intro vaginal brachytherapy and its mucosal surface was irradiated at the dose of 8 Gy/time. The response of their bladder and rectum to radiotherapy and the 1-, 2- and 3- year survival rates were recorded. Relation of chemotherapy, metastatic lymph nodes, clinical stage and pathological type with the prognosis of patients was analyzed.
Results The incidence of grade 1 rectum response to HT and IMRT was signifcantly higher than that of grade 1 acute bladder response to HT and IMRT (29.03% and 44.05%
vs 12.37% and 16.67%,
P=0.016,
P=0.341). No one≥2 grade acute rectum and bladder response to HT and IMRT occurred. The 1-, 2-, 3- year overall survival rate was 96.3%, 90.5%, 86.5% respectively in patients after HT and 93.1%, 90.1%, 71.9% respectively in patients after IMRT (
P=0.164), and 97.5%, 88.9%, 86.8% respectively in stageⅠpatients after HT and 91.0%, 87.5%, 78.6% respectively in stageⅠpatients after IMRT (
P=0.372), and 95.2%, 92.5%, 86.2% respectively in stage 2 patients after HT and 94.9%, 92.2%, 64.6% respectively in stage 2 patients after IMRT (
P=0.226). Univariate analysis revealed that chemotherapy and metastatic lymph nodes were related with the prognosis of patients. Multivariate analysis displayed that chemotherapy and metastatic lymph nodes were the independent factors for the prognosis of patients.
Conclusion The response of rectum to HT is better than that of IMRT with less metastatic lymph nodes involved and can improve the prognosis of patients.