Why Radical Trachelectomy and not Radical Hysterectomy for the treatment of early stage cervical cancer?

Nikolaos Thomakos, Sofia-Paraskevi Trachana, Michalis Liontos, Aristotelis Bamias, Alexandros Rodolakis

Cervical cancer is one of the most popular and lethal gynecological cancers worldwide. The standard treatment for early stage cervical cancer is radical hysterectomy combined with bilateral pelvic lymph node assessment. The infertility and the serious complications follow the radical hysterectomy, has lead gynecologic-oncologists to revise radical surgical approaches …

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