Class II versus Class III Radical Hysterectomy in Stage IB–IIA Cervical Cancer: A Prospective Randomized Study

The objective of this study was to determine the role of the extent of the radicality in the treatment of stage IB-IIA cervical carcinoma with respect to survival, pattern of relapse, and morbidity.Two-hundred forty-three patients with cervical carcinoma (FIGO stages IB and IIa) were enrolled in a prospective randomized study comparing two types of radical hysterectomy (Piver-Rutledge-Smith class II and class III) between April 1987 and December...