Adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix

A retrospective analysis was performed to evaluate the prognosis significance of histologic type (epidermoid carcinoma versus adenocarcinoma) on local control of disease and on the development of distant metastatic disease in 1239 patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix treated with radiation therapy alone or surgery and irradiation at the Radiation Oncology Center, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), Washington University Medical Center, between 1959 and 1982. The data indicate that adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix does not confer a worse prognosis than does epidermod carcinoma when all other factors are equal. Those factors most significant for survival are size of the primary lesion, dose at point A, and the presence of positive lymph nodes