Combined treatment in XXXX .

@entity1 @entity420 @entity5
From January 1976 - end of 1979, 427 @entity1 with cervical @entity5 were treated in the Department of Gynaecology, University of Hong Kong. Twenty-seven (6%) had primary @entity420 . Eighteen @entity1 with stage I and early stage II were treated by preoperative irradiation and Wertheim hysterectomy. Serial cervical biopsies were taken to assess the response to radiotherapy. All the cervical biopsies as well as the surgical specimens were read by the same pathologist. 83% showed residual dividing @entity5 cells in the surgical specimens. One hundred and forty-five @entity1 with early @entity5 were similarly treated during the same period; only 13% had @entity5 in the specimens (chi square test p is less than 0.001). All the @entity1 are being followed up regularly. Fifteen @entity1 with early cervical @entity420 are free from disease. The shortest period of follow-up is 5 1/4 years.
