[Evaluation of the effectiveness of the radiation component in the combined treatment of cervical cancer].

The author presents an analysis of the issues of different variants of the combination treatment for cervical cancer in 551 patients. In 246 of them the therapeutic schedule included the preoperative irradiation, in 305--the postoperative one. The preoperative irradiation was conducted following the fractional-protracted and large fractional techniques. Use of the irradiation preoperatively made it feasible to increase a 5-year survival in the patients; the fractional-protracted technique, however, yielded a greater number of the postoperative complications. Irradiation conducted in the regimen of large fractionation dose allowed obviating many of these complications and retaining the advantages of the combination treatment with preoperative radiotherapy.