Table 1. Recent literature comparing surgery vs. RT in stage IB–IIA cervical cancer.

Author (yr)*	Treatment method	No. of patients	>IB1 (%)	Adjuvant treatment	5-year OS (%)
Brewster et al. (2001)	Surgery	741	17	27% RT	84
	RT	298	50		69
Yamashita et al. (2005)	Surgery	115	51	63% RT	80
	RT	37	76		82
Bansal et al. (2009)	Surgery	4,012	33	NA	85
	RT	873	80		65
Doll et al. (2011)	Surgery	169	0	21.6% RT	95
	RT	29	0		70

NA, not applicable; OS, overall survival; RT, radiotherapy.

^*Case-control study.