Staging Issues in Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer: screening, diagnosis and staging.

Purpose: Despite the widespread screening programs, cervical cancer remains the third most common cancer in developing countries. Based on the implementation of cervical screening programs with the referred adoption of improved screening methods in cervical cytology with the knowledge of the important role of the human papilloma virus (HPV) it's incidence is decreased in the developed world. Ev...

Current Issues in Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy

Cervical cancer is a significant global health burden being the 4th most common cause of cancer related death in women worldwide [1]. This is despite the introduction of primary and secondary prevention measures within the developed world. A high proportion of patients present with locally advanced disease, defined as FIGO stage 1B2 to IVA. In this group of patients the standard of care is to t...

The role of MRI in cervical cancer staging

MRI for pretreatment lymph node staging in uterine cervical cancer.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to assess the accuracy of MRI in detecting pelvic and paraaortic lymph node metastasis from uterine cervical cancer using various imaging criteria. CONCLUSION Although MRI analysis resulted in relatively low sensitivity, size and margin (spiculated or lobulated) were useful criteria for predicting lymph node metastasis from cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer

سرویکس یا گردن رحم قسمتی از اندام تولید زنانه است که دهانه آن به داخل واژن باز می شود. بعضی اعمال آن عبارتند از :  تولید مواد نرم کننده واژن - تولید موکوس که کمک به حرکت اسپرم می کند- حفظ جنین در رحم در طول بارداری