Cervical cancer treatment has many types and it usually includes more therapeutic methods, depending on the clinical stage of the sickness. The treatment methods are the following: surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonotherapy, biologic therapy and genetic therapy (it is yet in study).



These therapeutically methods can be associated with one another in order to obtain the best therapeutic result possible. The purpose of the oncologic therapy can be the recovery (curability), the staging of the sickness, continuation of the survival, the continuation of the free interval of sickness or palliation (adjustment of semeiology and improvement of the life’s quality). The therapeutically course is established by the commission of therapeutic decision composed by an oncologist, chemotherapy doctor, radiotherapy doctor, a psychologist and a pathologist.



Choosing the specific treatment is made dependent on the localization of the sickness, the clinical stage, the factors of prognostic, the clinical situation of the patient, the age of the patient, the presence of other sicknesses associated and the patient’s option. The patient must receive all the information about each treatment, the benefits of it, the side effects and not lastly the risks that the patient will assume in case that he/she refuses the recommended treatment.

The oncology treatment includes local and systematic therapy. The local treatment actions over the primary tumor and it involves surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immuno-therapy. The systematic treatment actions over the primary tumor and over the disseminated cells from the primary tumor to other tissues/organs of the organism. The systematic treatment may involve chemotherapy, hormono-therapy, chemotherapy and cervical cancer – chemotherapy represents the treatment method, which uses citotoxic medicines in order to destroy the malign cells. It is administrated intravenously (the most frequently), on the oral way, intra-arterial, intra-toumoral or intramuscular.

Chemotherapy can be curative (represents the principal modality of treatment), neoadjuvant or pre-operatorial (they have the role to reduce the primary tumour, to improve the loco-regional control of the sickness and to decrease the risk of distance dissemination of the cancer in the case of the patients with un-advantageous prognostic), palliative (has the purpose to improve the life’s quality, reduces the semiology).

Chemotherapy and cervical cancer – chemotherapy is administrated, normally in series/cures of 1 day, 2 days, 3 days or 5 days (there are more complex series, also), each period of the treatment is followed by a period of recovery (3-4 weeks). There can be used more cytostatics, depending on: localization, hysto-pathological form, clinical stage, the sicknesses associated with the cancer and the option of the doctor.



Side effects of the cytostatics are many, with different grades of severity, temporary or permanent. The secondary effects depend on the cytostatic, on the doses administrated and on the period of the treatment. The most frequent side effects of the cytostatics are: physical asthenia, lost of the alimentary appetite, alopecia (hair lost), nausea and eructation, high risk of infections (by decreasing of the leucocyte’s number), different bleedings (by decreasing the number of the thrombocytes), disorders of the intestinal transit (diarrhea or constipation), anemia, mucositis and allergic reactions. Most of the side effects can be ameliorated by specific treatments and they usually disappear after the chemotherapy ends.