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Treatment

What if the abnormal cells from my cervix are found to be cancer?

For cervical cancer, treatment options include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination of these treatments.  These procedures can sometimes make it impossible to have children.  Women who are still hoping to have children should discuss this desire with their physician because that may influence the treatment choices.

In most cases of advanced cervical cancer, the doctor will suggest surgically removing your cervix.  This procedure will remove the cancer cells from the body.  However, there are short-term and long-term side effects related to this surgery.  First, if the cervix is removed, you might not be able to have children.  Second, there are always risks to surgery such as infection and bleeding, and risk from receiving anesthesia, the drugs that put you to sleep during surgery.  Depending on the size and location of the tumor, surgery may or may not be an option.  If surgery is the recommended treatment, be sure to choose a surgeon who specializes in cancer surgery of the female organs.