Gynaecological cancers

Question 1

What is the treatment for cervical cancer?

Answer 1

Very small cancers can be treated by conisation with free margins if aiming to spare fertility

Radical trachelectomy can be done for slightly more advanced, when aiming to spare fertility

Laparoscopic hysterectomy and lymphadenectomy for women for early-stage cancer when infertility isn’t an issue

For invasive, infiltrating and early metastatic cancer a radical hysterectomy can be performed

Radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy if there’s spread outside the cervix and uterus