Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of paclitaxel and cisplatin combined chemotherapy (TP) regimen with concurrent radiotherapy in the treatment of advanced cervical cancer.
Methods A prospective study was conducted on 60 female patients with advanced cervical cancer aged (52.2±3.2) years who were treated in Heping Hospital Affiliated to Changzhi Medical College from August 2020 to August 2021. The patients were divided into a control group (30 cases of cisplatin chemotherapy and radiotherapy) and an observation group (30 cases of TP regimen and radiotherapy) using the random number table method. The clinical efficacy, serum tumor marker levels, incidence of adverse reactions, apoptosis, and extracellular matrix degradation levels were compared between the two groups. T test was used to compare the measurement data, and χ2 test was applied to compare the counting data.
Results The objective remission rate of the observation group was higher than that of the control group (86.67% vs. 63.33%), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2=4.355, P=0.037). The levels of squamous cell carcinoma antigen and carbohydrate antigen 125 in the observation group were lower than those in the control group after treatment ((2.18±0.68) μg/L vs. (4.06±1.12) μg/L, (22.24±5.93) U/mL vs.(26.28±6.71) U/mL), and the differences were statistically significant (χ2=7.858, 2.471; both P<0.05). No statistically significant differences were observed for fatigue, myelosuppression, gastrointestinal reaction, radiation enteritis, and urinary reaction and the incidence of liver and kidney function injury (χ2=0.218−1.071, all P>0.05).compared with patients of the control group after treatment, the levels of matrix metalloproteinase-2 ((522.47±45.93) ng/L vs. (325.41±32.54) ng/L) and MMP-9((516.28±45.84) ng/L vs. (378.18±33.59) ng/L) decreased and the level of cysteine proteinase-8 ((96.48±9.33) ng/L vs. (219.49±33.88) ng/L) increased in the observation group, and the differences were statistically significant (t=19.175, 13.310, 19.172; all P<0.05).
Conclusions The TP regimen with concurrent radiotherapy can improve the efficacy of patients with advanced cervical cancer and has good safety.