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Cervical Cancer
Pre-exenterative chemotherapy used to treat patients with cervical cancer
January 19th, 2006
Pre-exenterative chemotherapy could be used to treat patients with persistent or recurrent cervical cancer. According to recent research published in the journal BMC Cancer, "Most cervical cancer patients with pelvic recurrent or persistent disease are not candidates for exenteration, therefore, they only receive palliative chemotherapy. Here we report the results of a novel treatment modality for these patients pre-exenterative chemotherapy-under the rational that the shrinking of the pelvic tumor would allow its resection. Patients with recurrent or persistent disease and no evidence of systemic disease, considered not be candidates for pelvic exenteration...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-19)
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