From January 1959 to December 1987, 2555 cases of uterine cervical cancer were evaluated at Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical profile and 5-year survival rate of cervical
cancer.
The
mean number of patients per year was 88.1 cases. The majority of patients, 1070 cases(41.9%), was found in the group of age between 41 and 50. The distributions of patients by the clinical stages were as follows: Stage 0,224 cases(8.8%); Stage I,
971
cases (38.0%); Stage II, 1059 cases (41.4%); Stage III, 225 cases (8.8%); and Stage IV, 76 cases (3.0%). The results of histopathologic subtype were distributed as follows: squamous cell carcinoma was 95.0%, adenocarcinoma was 4.3% and
adenosquamous
cell carcinoma was 0.7%. the frequency of lymph node metastasis was 15.2% in Stage I and 33.8% in Stage II. We have also evaluated the 5-year survival rate of the patients treated from January 1977 to December 1982, according to life table
analysis. The
results were as follows: Stage Ia, 100%: Stage Ib, 80.8%; Stage IIa, 74.5%; Stage IIb, 66.8%; Stage III, 51.9%; Stage IV, 27.8%.
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