Prognostic significance of vascular density and a malignancy grading in radiation treated uterine cervix carcinoma.

In a retrospective study of 95 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix (Stage IB, IIA, III) treated by radiation only, pretreatment biopsy material was used for assessment of the prognostic value of histopathological multifactorial malignancy grading and a morphometric estimation of vascular density in stroma. By comparison of the two systems, vascular density has been proved superior to malignancy grading with respect to prognostic value.