If your disease is at a later stage, you may need surgery, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. A radical hysterectomy may be performed. Your surgeon will also remove nearby lymph tissue to see if the cancer has spread. In addition, a beam of radiation is targeted on the cancerous cells to shrink the tumour. If the cancer has spread beyond your cervix, it's unlikely that surgery alone will be able to treat it and radiotherapy with chemotherapy is the usual treatment. Radiotherapy can also be used after surgery to help reduce the risk of the cancer coming back. Chemotherapy is a treatment to destroy cancer cells with medicines usually a series of injections. Chemotherapy is sometimes used before radiotherapy or surgery to shrink a tumour or if cancer comes back after treatment.
Attribution: BUPA