Objective: To estimate the impact of parametrial infiltration and lymph node metastasis on clinical outcome in women with early-stage cervical cancer following radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy. Methods: Clinical re-cords and pathologic slides of 532 patients with early-stage cervical cancer (330 Ib and 202 Ila) treated with radical hyster-ectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy were reviewed. The study group comprised 520 patients with squamous cell carcinoma and 12 patients with adenocarcinoma of the cervix. Median follow-up time was 67 months. The association among the various histopathologic predictors of outcome was determined with analysis. The influence of the predictors on outcome was exam-ined with log rank survival methods and the Cox regression model. Results: FIGO stage, histologic type, tumor size, depth of invasion, parametrial infiltration, lymph node metastasis, and remote metastasis were identified as significantly biologically relevant and therefore were included as candidate predictors in multivariate analysis. In particular, parametrial infiltration and lymph node metastasis were found to be simultaneous predictors of death on multivariate analysis (P < 0.05). After controlling for these two factors, the other variables considered were not statistically significant up to a two-way interaction. Conclusion: Presence of parametrial infiltration and/or lymph node metastasis in women with early-stage cervical cancer is an indepen-dent poor prognostic factor. In addition, the relatively poor survival of women with more than one lymph nodes identified with cancer cells.