SURGERY AS THE MAIN STAGE OF THE COMPLEX TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH THE LOCALY EXTENSIVE DISEASE CERVICAL CANCER
Cervical cancer is still one of the most widespread women's malignant neoplasms. The number of women with the neglected form of this disease together with the morbidity of young women increase. That's why it is necessary not only to develop new methods of treatment, but also to improve present ones including surgery, combined and complex methods of treatment. Complex treatment in combination with surgery let achieve high results of 5-year survival value for patients with such an unfavorable factor as the metastatic spread to pelvic lymph nodes. The results get worse when 3 or more lymph nodes are involved.