Simple hysterectomy is not inferior to radical hysterectomy in terms of 3-year incidence of pelvic disease recurrence among women with low-risk cervical cancer, according to study data published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers also reported an association between simple hysterectomy and lower risk for urinary incontinence or retention.
“Because the literature suggest[ed] that less radical might be safe and feasible for women with early-stage low-risk cervical cancer, but the available data only came from retrospective series [subject to biases], we felt it was