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Background: Uterine cervical cancer in Albania is among the ten most frequent cancers in women, and among top ten cancers with the highest mortality. Cervical cancer was treated by radiation only until 2004. This treatment was changed to concurrent radiation and chemotherapy also known as concurrent radiation in the same year. Aims: To compare five-year recurrence-free survival among patients treated with concurrent chemoradiation and those treated with radiation only. Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Methods: Patients ’ charts from 2002 to 2010 at the Oncology Hospital were reviewed. Patients with uterine cervical cancer diagnosis, treated with either radiation or concurrent chemoradiation who received a full treatment were selected for the study. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and multivariate Cox regression were conducted to determine the effect of treatment on survival. A p value of 0.05 was selected as threshold for statistical significance. Results: 379 patients met the selective criteria of the study. In early-stage cancer patients, Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed recurrence-free survival probabilities of 57 % (95 % CI: 43-69