In some good news for women battling locally advanced cervical cancer, new research shows that adding six weeks of chemotherapy to standard treatment cuts the risk of death by 40 percent.
“This is the biggest improvement in outcome in this disease in over 20 years,” lead investigator Dr. Mary McCormack, from University College London'sResearch UK, which funded the trial.
Cisplatin-based chemotherapy is currently the most commonly used method of treating cervical cancer, improving survival rates by 30% to 50%. While tumor removal surgery is an option, some experts prefer chemotherapy.oncologyand chemotherapy, you have a chance that you're going to sterilize the pelvis of all of the cancer… We have the chances that we're going to put women into a prolonged, complete remission.
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