Efficacy and safety comparison between two neo-adjuvant chemotherapies in treatment of locally advanced cervical carcinoma

Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of intravenous chemotherapy plus operation and interventional arterial chemotherapy plus operation in treatment of patients with local-ly advanced cervical carcinoma (phases Ib2~IIb).Methods 140 patients with locally advanced cervical carcinoma (phases Ib2~IIb)were divided into experimental group (uterine artery interven-tional chemotherapy plus surgery)and control group (venous chemotherapy plus surgery)according to different initial therapeutic methods,70 cases in each group.Short-term efficacy,tumor diameter changes before and after treatment,rate of radical operation,3 and 5 years overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS),complications as well as pathological risk factors (rates of para-u-terine invasion and lymph node metastasis)were observed.Results Short-term efficacy improved in both groups.The decreased tumor diameter in experimental group was significantly greater than control group,and the probability rate of patients with radical operation was significantly larger than the control group.Corresponding rates of para-uterine invasion and lymph node metastasis in the ex-perimental group were significantly lower than the control group.There were no significant differ-ences of 3 years OS and PFS between two groups,and the 5 years OS and PFS in the experimental group were higher than the control group.Conclusion For patients with locally advanced cervical carcinoma,neo-adjuvant chemotherapy with artery interventional therapy is better than intravenous chemotherapy in aspects of surgical resection rate and 5 years OS,so it is a safe and effective thera-peutic method.