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Table 3.

Cervical Cancer: Eligibility Criteria For Fertility-Sparing Management

Tumor Characteristics

✓
Invasive squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, or adenosquamous carcinoma
- ◦
  Not eligible: Small cell neuroendocrine tumor or gastric type minimum deviation adenocarcinoma

Criteria Evaluated at MRI

✓
Tumor size ≤ 2 cm

(Some centers accept tumor size ≤ 4 cm, particularly if exophytic)
✓
Tumor-to-internal os distance ≥ 1 cm

(Some centers accept ≥ 0.5 cm)

✓
Cervical stromal invasion (CSI) < 50%

(Some centers accept: any degree of CSI)
✓
Absence of parametrial invasion
✓
Absence of lymph node metastases