Prognosis in carcinona of the ulerine cervix appears to be influenced by multiple factors (the size of primary tumor, nodal status, deep invasion into cervical stroma, histologic grade etc) that are frequently in terrelated. Recently other new factors may have been propoeed as prognostic factors in cervical cancer, such as number of cells in S-phase, or act,ivation of c- Ha-ras nnnd c-myc protooncogenes. It has been sug gested that c-myc proto-ancogene is associated with cellular proliferation and that its inappvopriate expression may be involved in carcinogerieais and in tumor progression. But its status as prognostic factor in cervical cancer is controversal. So we studied 42 with normal cervix and 61 wiith cervical carcinorna to investigate the relatiarship betwveer the prognostic variables of the cervical cancer(age, stage, tumor size, depth of invasion, lymph node metastasia) and c-myc gene expression, analyzed uaing immunohistochemical stainirig with formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissues from January 1985 to December 1986. And we assessed the progrioatic signifieance of r, myc gene expression by multivariate analysis. There was, significant, difference in c-myc gene expression between the normal cervix and the invasive cervical carcinama(0%: 34.4%, p<0.001). And the c-myc gene expressian was increased significantly according to clinical stage and depth of invasion. But, no relationship was found between c myc overexpression and other clinical ancl histologic parameters, such as age, primary tunaor size and lymph node metastasis. The 5 year disease free survival rates of the patients whose tumors showed c-myc overexpression were significantly lower(23.1%) than that(50.0%) of Other cancer patients. But only lymph node metastasis was significant]y related to the relative risk of relapse when the multivariate analysis was performed. These results suggested that c-myc gene expression may be associated with the cervieal tumorigenesis, but not useful as an indepenclent pragnoetic factor of the cervical carcinoma.