A 55-year-old woman was found to have Ca cervix, FIGO stage 2-3, locally advanced. What would be the management?:
As discussed in detail in preceeding text best for cervical cancer of (stages II B to IV A) is chemoradiation (i.e. chemotherapy and radiotherapy), where by cisplatin is used as a radiosensitiser to increase the sensitivity of the cells to radiotherapy before giving radiotherapy.
Since in this question –chemotherapy + radiotherapy is given as one of the options, hence, we will mark it as the correct option.
Surgery plus chemotherapy
radiotherapy plus chemotherapy
Chemotherapy
Radiotherapy plus HPV vaccine
radiotherapy plus chemotherapy