Salvage surgery for patients with residual disease after chemoradiation therapy for locally advanced cervical cancer: A systematic review on indication, complications, and survival.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Standard treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer is chemoradiation therapy. Treatment with chemoradiation therapy harbors a risk of local residual disease, which can be curatively treated with salvage surgery, but the risk of complications following surgical procedures in radiated tissue is not negligible. The presence of residual disease can be radiologically and/or histologically diagnosed. The objective of this study is to describe studies that report on salvage surgery for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer after primary treatment with chemoradiation therapy. Therefore, we assessed the method of determining the presence of residual disease, the risk of complications, and the survival rate after salvage surgery.

Material and methods

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SUBMITTER: van Kol KGG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359234 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature