Survival of a cohort of women with cervical cancer diagnosed in a Brazilian cancer center

Claudio Calazan do Carmo
Ronir Raggio Luiz

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Publication date

August 2011

DOI

10.1590/s0034-89102011000400004

Publisher

Universidade de São Paulo

ISSN

0034-8910

Journal

issn:0034-8910

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess overall survival of women with cervical cancer and describe prognostic factors associated. METHODS: A total of 3,341 cases of invasive cervical cancer diagnosed at the Brazilian Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, between 1999 and 2004 were selected. Clinical and pathological characteristics and follow-up data were collected. There were performed a survival analysis using Kaplan-Meier curves and a multivariate analysis through Cox model. RESULTS: Of all cases analyzed, 68.3% had locally advanced disease at the time of diagnosis. The 5-year overall survival was 48%. After multivariate analysis, tumor staging at diagnosis was the single variable significantly associated with prognosis (p<0.001). There w...