Surgery before standard treatment may extend life in cervical cancer

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Histopathology: squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, adeno-squamous cell carcinoma 2. Cervical cancer stage IIICr (confirmed by CT/MRI/PET/CT) and the short diameter of image-positive lymph node ≥15mm 3. ECOG score 0\~1 4. Expected survival over 6 months 5. The serum or urine pregnancy test must be negative within 7 days before enrollment for the women of childbearing age who should agree that contraception must be used during the trial 6. No surgical contraindication Exclusion Criteria: 1. Activity or uncontrol severe infection 2. Active hepatitis B, Liver cirrhosis, Decompensated liver disease 3. History of immune deficiency, including HIV positive or suffering from other immunodeficiency disease 4. Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment (e.g., use of disease-modifying medications, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive medications). Replacement therapies (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiological corticosteroid replacement for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) were not counted as systemic therapies, and subjects were permitted to use these therapies 5. Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneumonitis 6. Chronic renal insufficiency or renal failure 7. Has combined with other malignant tumor which diagnosed within 5 years and/or needed to be treated 8. Myocardial infarction, severe arrhythmia and NYHA (New York heart association)≥2 for congestive heart failure 9. Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant 10. A history of pelvic artery embolization 11. A history of pelvic radiotherapy 12. A history of partial hysterectomy or radical hysterectomy 13. A history of immunotherapy or undergoing immunotherapy 14. A history of severe allergic reactions to platinum-based chemotherapy drugs, pembrolizumab and/or any excipients 15. During the treatment for complications, the drugs which lead to serious liver and/or kidney function impairment need to be used, such as tuberculosis