Abstract: It is the highest disease rate of cervical cancer in genital organs tumor, and the main transferred way of cervical cancer is lymphatic metabasis. The sentinel lymph node is the first node draining the lymphatic flow from a primary tumor. It has been proposed that the features of simple operation, high detection rate and the high value of negative prediction about the sentinel lymph node detection. The advances in sentinel lymph node detection about concept, methods, histopathology and influencing factors have been overviewed to guide radical hysterectomy with pelvic, reducing wound of operation and pelvic lymph nodes metastasis and the institution of reasonable radiotherapy plan have the important meaning.