Cervix carcinoma, concurrent chemoradiotherapy, and salvage of isolated paraaortic lymph node recurrence

Salvage concurrent full-dose chemoradiotherapy afforded excellent survival of patients who did not have classic findings but had disease recurrence exclusively in the paraaortic lymph nodes. The effectiveness of salvage concurrent full-dose chemoradiotherapy in patients with symptomatic disease recurrence remains unclear. However, chemotherapy or radiotherapy alone produced dismal survival in patients with classic findings of recurrence.