There is a multitude of treatment options for women suffering of cervical cancer. Some treatments are standard (frequently used) and some of them are still tested in clinical studies. Before beginning a treatment, women can consider the possibility of participating in a clinical trial. A cure included into a clinical trial represents a research study which has the purpose to help the improvement of the standard treatments or to obtain information about the new inlaid treatments in the cancer therapy. When a clinical trial proves that a new treatment is better than a standard cure, than the new method can become a standard one.

Choosing of the more appropriate cervical cancer treatment is a decision that usually involves the patients, their family and the team of doctors.

There are used three types of standard cervical cancer cures: the surgical treatment, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

The surgical treatment is sometimes curative. There are practiced the following surgical procedures: conical biopsy, total hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, radical hysterectomy, pelvic exenteration, cryosurgery, laser vaporization.

Radiotherapy is a cancer treatment which uses Roentgen rays with big energy or another type of rays to destroy the malign cells. There are two types of radiotherapy: the external radiotherapy uses a device which is sending radiations to the cancer; the internal radiotherapy uses a radioactive substance contained in spikes, radiant seeds and wires which are placed right into the cancer or near to it. The irradiation method depends on the type and the stadium of the disease.

Chemotherapy is a cancer cure method which uses pharmaceutical substances to stop the growing of the malign cells. When the chemotherapy is made per bone or by injection in vena or muscle, the substances get in the sanguine circulation and gets to the malign cells from the organism (systematic chemotherapy). When the chemotherapy is made directly into the spinal cord, into an organ or a cavity, the substance affects in the first place the malign cells from the specific zones (regional chemotherapy).

The cervical cancer cures option can be made depending on the cancer’s stage. For stage zero the treatment can include the following procedures: laser surgery, conical biopsy, cryosurgery, total hysterectomy (for women who cannot or don’t want to have babies), internal radiotherapy (for women who don’t support a surgical intervention). The cure for stage I-A can be made of: total hysterectomy with or without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, conical biopsy, radical hysterectomy and extraction of lymphatic nodules, internal radiotherapy. Stage I-B can be cured by: radiotherapy and chemotherapy, a combination between internal and external radiotherapy, radical hysterectomy and extraction of lymphatic nodules followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Treatment for stage II-A is composed by: radiotherapy and chemotherapy, internal radiotherapy combined with external radiotherapy, radical hysterectomy and removal of lymphatic nodules (followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy). The cure for stages II-B, III and IV-A may include internal and external radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy. Stage IV-B can contain the following procedures: radiotherapy (as palliative treatment) to ameliorate the cancer symptoms and for improving the quality of life, chemotherapy.

The treatment of recurrent cancer may involve pelvic exenteration followed by radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy or chemotherapy (as palliative cure) – applied for amelioration of semeiology and for betterment of life quality.

The cervical cancer cures during the pregnancy depend on the disease’s stage and on the gestation’s phase. In case of cancer in precocious stadiums or in case of cancer discovered in the last trimester of pregnancy, the treatment can be delayed until the mother gives birth to her child.