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6 treatment settings, 4 with more than one named option. Each section lays out the options the standard of care names, what each is for, the trials behind them with their recorded results, the side effects and cautions on record, and questions to ask. Built from the cancer page's standard-of-care rows; nothing here is advice for your case.
Cone biopsy with clear margins or simple hysterectomy; no node assessment needed.
Looking at the cervix with a magnifier after a positive screen, then removing the abnormal patch with an electric wire loop in a clinic visit.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
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Simple hysterectomy with node assessment (SHAPE) or open radical hysterectomy; sentinel node biopsy where a trial or protocol supports it.
Removing just the first lymph node a tumour drains to, instead of all of them, to check for spread.
MRI uses a strong magnet and radio waves, with no ionising radiation, to picture soft tissue in finer contrast than CT, so it is the standard scan for brain tumours, prostate, rectal cancer staging, liver lesions and breast screening in high-risk women. It is slow, expensive and blurred by movement.
No headline result recorded yet.
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Open radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy; minimally invasive radical hysterectomy avoided after LACC.
Surgeons operate through small incisions using robotic arms with tremor-free precision and 3D vision.
Averages across everyone diagnosed, often years ago. A median is the middle of a group: half the people counted lived longer than the figure shown, and some lived far longer. Your stage, subtype, age, fitness and the treatment you receive matter more than the average, and the numbers are improving quickly.
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Cone or simple trachelectomy for IA disease; radical trachelectomy with node assessment for IB1 tumours up to 2 cm.
Looking at the cervix with a magnifier after a positive screen, then removing the abnormal patch with an electric wire loop in a clinic visit.
Removing just the first lymph node a tumour drains to, instead of all of them, to check for spread.
MRI uses a strong magnet and radio waves, with no ionising radiation, to picture soft tissue in finer contrast than CT, so it is the standard scan for brain tumours, prostate, rectal cancer staging, liver lesions and breast screening in high-risk women. It is slow, expensive and blurred by movement.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
Add these to your appointment list, or take the full question set for this cancer.
Pelvic radiotherapy for intermediate-risk features; cisplatin chemoradiation for positive nodes, margins or parametria.
IMRT and IGRT shape the radiation beam to the tumour's outline from multiple angles and check the patient's position with a scan before every session, so surrounding organs receive less dose. Fewer, larger doses are now standard in breast and prostate cancer, but a low-dose bath still spreads across normal tissue.
Cisplatin is the original platinum chemotherapy, discovered by accident in 1965; it cures testicular cancer and makes radiation work better in cervical and head and neck cancer.
Brachytherapy places a radioactive source directly inside or next to the tumour.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
Add these to your appointment list, or take the full question set for this cancer.
HPV vaccination and HPV-based screening with colposcopy for positives.
Vaccines that prevent the viral infections behind cervical, throat, anal, and liver cancers. The most effective anti-cancer intervention ever created.
A swab tested for the virus that causes cervical cancer, more accurate than the Pap smear and doable at home.
Looking at the cervix with a magnifier after a positive screen, then removing the abnormal patch with an electric wire loop in a clinic visit.
No trial record is attached to this row yet. The trials tab lists what is recruiting and the landmark trials for this cancer.
Add these to your appointment list, or take the full question set for this cancer.