Could Adjuvant Chemotherapy Improve Prognosis for Cervical Cancer Patients with Elevated Pretreatment Serum Squamous-Cell Carcinoma Antigen?

Zhen YuanDongyan CaoYing ZhangKeng ShenJiaxin YangMei YuHuimei Zhou

Published in: Risk management and healthcare policy (2021)

For patients with elevated pretreatment SCC-Ag, adjuvant chemotherapy was not found to improve prognosis. Also, a considerable proportion of these patients had postoperative indications for adjuvant radiotherapy. For these cervical cancer patients with elevated pretreatment SCC-Ag, the choice of radical hysterectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy should be prudent.

Keyphrases

squamous cell carcinoma
early stage
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
quantum dots
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
radiation therapy