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Cancer of the cervix is the most common cancer among women India, constituting between one-sixth to one-half of all female cancers with an age-adjusted incidence rate ranging from 19.4 to 43.5 per 100 000 in the repstries under the National Cancer Regwistry Programme (NCRP) (Annual Reports, NCRP, ICMR). It has been estimated that 100 000 new cases of cancer of the cervix occur in India every year, and 70 % or more of these are Stage m or higher at diais. However, the incidence of cancer of the cervix as suggested in this report appears to be on the delin in Bangalore. Besies incidnce and clinical stage at presentation knowledge of survival is essential to complte the pichtu of establshing baseline indicators to monitor and evaluate cancer control programmes. Survival analysis was carried out in 2121 patients diagnosed during 1982-89 in the population of Bangalore, India. The observed 5 year survival was 34.4 % and the relative survival 38.3%. Chnical stage at presentation was the single most important variable in predicting survival. The 5 year observed survival for stage I disease was 63.3%, for stage 11 44.0%, for stage IH 30.3% and for stage IV 5.7%. Keyword cancer of the cervix- incidence; mortality; survival Cancer of the cervix is the leading cancer in women and the most common cancer among all sites in both sexes in th