Comparison of oncological outcomes in elderly early-stage cervical cancer patients treated with radical surgery or radiotherapy: A real-world retrospective study with propensity score matching.

The study found that surgery was more frequently selected for elderly cervical cancer patients with adenocarcinoma and IB1 stage cancer in the real-world setting. After PSM to balance the biases, it showed that compared with radiotherapy, surgery could improve the OS of elderly early-stage cervical cancer patients and was an independent protective factor of OS in elderly early-stage cervical cancer patients.