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Table 1 Baseline characteristics.

From: Brachytherapy versus radical hysterectomy after external beam chemoradiation: a non-randomized matched comparison in IB2-IIB cervical cancer patients

Clinicopathological

 

surgery

brachytherapy

Number

 

40

40

Karnofsky status

 

90

90

Age (median)

 

45 (24–70)

45 (24–70)

Stage

   
 

IB2

9 (22%)

9 (22%)

 

IIA

4 (10%)

4 (10%)

 

IIB

27 (68%)

27 (68%)

Histology

   
 

Squamous

28 (70%)

 
 

28 (70%)

  
 

Adenocarcinoma

8 (20%)

8 (20%)

 

Adenosquamous

4 (10%)

4 (10%)

Hemoglobin gr/dL

   
 

Median

14.4 (10.1–15.3)

13.4 (10.4–15.2)

 

Tumor size (cm2)

32.5 (16–81)

34 (16–84)