[Cervical carcinoma recurrences and their treatment at the University of Freiburg's Women's Clinic from 1976 to 1985].

From 1976 to 1985 151 recurrent carcinomas of the uterine cervix were diagnosed and in 118 cases they have been treated at the Gynaecological Centre of the University of Freiburg. The recurrences were divided according to the localisation scheme of Munnell and Bonney. 55 patients (47%) received radiotherapy, 22 (19%) surgery, 12 (10%) combined therapy of surgery and radiotherapy and 13 women (11%) chemotherapy or hormone therapy. 16 patients (13%) received a different type of therapy. We found most of the recurrences three or four years after the primary therapy. There was no correlation between the point of time of diagnosis of the recurrences and the prognosis. The distribution of the histology was no parameter for the OAS. The operative procedure demonstrates better results than the radiotherapy at recurrences in the centre of the pelvis--but there is no significance. The radiotherapy achieves significant better results than the operative treatment when we have large recurrences in the whole pelvis. If there is an answer of the tumour to the therapy, the OAS gets better--in these cases we should use, in spite of the risk of more side effects, the whole therapeutic range.