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Understanding Cervical Cancer: A Woman's Guide


Description

This guide will take patients recently diagnosed with cervical cancer through the basics of what they need to know about their treatment.

This guide addresses the following topics:

  • Cervical cancer: an overview
    • Staging
  • Working with your treatment team
    • Talking with your treatment team
  • Treatment
    • Surgery
    • Radiation therapy
    • Chemotherapy
  • Living with cancer therapy
Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.foundationforwomenscancer.org/wp-content/uploads/Understanding-Cervical-Cancer-2013.pdf (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software External Web Site Policy.)

Developer

Gynecologic Cancer Foundation

Funding Sources

Gynecologic Cancer Foundation


QualityTool Topic

Disease/Condition-Related


History

  • Release Date: 05/2006
  • Original Summary: 05/2006
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Last updated: May 15, 2013.