There are small chances of having a baby after you've had cervical cancer. Cervical cancer develops in the cells lining the cervix. The cervix is the passage between the uterus and the vagina. But what makes it unlikely for you to have children afterwards, even if you are cures, is in fact the treatments. Luckily you can nowadays easily prevent developing these cancerous cells by having regular Pap screenings in order to detect any eventual risk on time as in its early age of development cervical cancer is 100% treatable without any severe intervention.

As far as having children is concerned the main problem is with radiation therapy. This type of treatment which exposes your organism to intense radiation exposure is meant to kill cancerous cells but ends up killing a lot of healthy cells too. Many healthy cells that it kills are essential to the reproductive organs.

This terrible side effect can make the patient infertile and completely disrupts the reproduction system. Another treatment often recommended with cervical cancer and with great if not unavoidable risks to make it impossible for you to bare children is hysterectomy. However, if diagnosed in an early stage the best treatment is radical trachelectomy which will also enable you to have children. Radical trachelectomy and laparoscopy for pelvic lymph node dissection remove the cervix and area lymph nodes but not the uterus.

Another surgical intervention that doesn't eliminate your chances for having babies is a cone biopsy or loop electrosurgical excision procedure. This procedure removes a wedge of cervical tissue that contains the cancer. This intervention is unfortunately also effective in the first stages of the cancer.

Your best chance out there for both cure and having children is therefore getting periodical Pap smears and constantly monitor your health.

Even though those last two options for surgical intervention can maintain your ability to have children the risk for miscarriage and premature death are very high. It's a chance you have to take and there have been numerous successful births after curing cervical cancer as well.


Complications can also occur along with the progress of the treatment. With a first stage of the cancer, there is only a very small risk of the cancer spreading to the lymph nodes and becoming invasive. Trachelectomy can eliminate cancerous cells in this early stage but if any of your lymph nodes are later found to contain even the smallest amount of cancer cells, your specialist is likely to recommend radiation therapy. Unfortunately, radiotherapy will also make you infertile and so you will not be able to have children even after the trachelectomy.
To find out more about how cervical cancer can affect your daily life and what your chances for normal life after the disease are you should seek counseling alongside consulting with your oncologist.