Radiotherapy

Gynecologic Radiation OncologyCancer of the Uterine CervixTreatment results for invasive carcinoma of the cervix have been good in the past, with an overall disease-free five-year survival rate of 65 per cent.3 There has not been much improvement in the stage-for-stage survival rate in the past 20 years. Failure to eradicate the disease in the pelvis, with or without associated distant metastases, still accounts for more than 85 per cent of the deaths occurring in advanced disease (Stages III and IV).87 The introduction of megavoltage radiation equipment has had less than the desired impact, probably because intracavitary radium was . . .