Early stage disease does not need to be treated.

More extensive bone marrow involvement would be considered stage 4 disease.

At diagnosis, 66% of the patients have stage IV disease.

The four patients with later stage disease are dead, she added.

Chemotherapy may be considered for patients with stage IV disease who have a good performance status.

The median time to progression to end stage renal disease is 2.7 years.

A hysterectomy may be performed in women with the early stage 1 disease.

It is also used to treat women with stage 2 disease.

Hence, cases of local and regional stage disease were combined in the present study.

Patients with stage I disease have a 100% survival rate with surgery alone.