Cervical cancer is one of the most easily preventable forms of cancer and this has been made certain by the significant drop in its incidence since the increasing use of Pap screening by women throughout USA. This has helped women be more aware of the risk factors of developing cervical cancer and to detect precancerous conditions or HPV infections that can be treated and are 100% curable. However, this is the result of continuous efforts to keep women aware and prevent the screening from being postponed more and more.

It's a well known fact that the thing that weighs the most in having a positive life expectancy prognosis is the stage in which the cancer is diagnosed. The earlier your doctor detects the cancer, the more chances you have of overcoming it. That is why constant monitoring through Pap smears is so important.



Surgery is the procedure which, if recommended as a treatment, is already in itself a reason to be optimistic. If surgery applies that means the tumor has not spread and offers a great chance of being removed completely, especially is radiation therapy and chemotherapy are also administered. These can be undergone before surgery to shrink the tumor or after surgery to kill any remaining cancerous cells.

If your condition is operable it might even not have developed into cancer yet and is just a precancerous condition also known as dysplasia. If the woman herself can withstand the intervention then surgery can be established according to the stage of the cancer. Starting with the first precancerous stage, referred to also as stage 0 and includes cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, the procedure recommended is the LEEP procedure (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure) or Laser Surgery. For precancerous conditions but also for invasive cervical cancer stage IA1 conization can be performed. Other surgical options for stage 0 are cryosurgery and hysterectomy. From then on other, more radical interventions are recommended. These are all performed in operation rooms under anesthesia.

Let's take a look at some of these interventions see what cervical cancer should expect from such procedures.

The LEEP procedure sounds like a complicated intervention and consists in using a high frequency electrical current to cut away tissue invaded by cancerous cells. The procedure is done in one visit and the cancer can be completely cured after just one visit and it can even be effective in the case of some more invasive conditions.



Laser surgery is the second recommended intervention in the case of precancerous conditions. This operation uses a laser beam directed through the vagina and burns off the tissue for biopsy.

Conization is also surgery that can provide a cure for precancerous conditions and acts by removing a cone-shaped piece from the cervix. With all these procedures the woman has greater chances to preserve her ability to have children.