[Prognostic significance of lymph node dissection in terms of overall survival of invasive cervical cancer].

Objective: To establish the role of the lymph node dissection (LND) and the overall. Survival of patients with invasive cervical cancer depending on their lymph node status.
Material and Methods: The follow-up period includes the date of registration until September 2011 or exitus letalis. (from 2 to 96 months, average 45 months).
Results: We presented the relationships between presense of lymph node metastases (LNM), number of LNM, localization of LNM, micro- and macro- LNM and the overall survival of patients staged IB1 -IIB.
Conclusion: Patients with microscopic LNM reveal similar overall survival (81%) to patients without LNM (86%). In these patients LND demonstrates therapeutic effect.