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Wui-Jin Koh1, Benjamin E Greer, Nadeem R Abu-Rustum
1Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/ Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, USA.
Abstract:
These NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Cervical Cancer focus on early-stage disease, because it occurs more frequently in the United States. After careful clinical evaluation and staging, the primary treatment of early-stage cervical cancer is either surgery or radiotherapy. These guidelines include fertility-sparing and non-fertility-sparing treatment for those with early-stage disease, which is disease confined to the uterus. A new fertility-sparing algorithm was added for select patients with stage IA and IB1 disease..
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