Cervical Cancer
Overview
The Ultimate Guide to Cancer: DIY Research
This guide from Ralph Moss, PhD, BCCT advisor and leading chronicler of integrative cancer treatments, shows you how to use four of the main tools that doctors use to decide on the best cancer treatments. It will help you learn why some cancer treatments that look good in clinical trials may not work for “real world” patients. It will help you answer two questions that the doctor may be hesitant to answer in the detail you need to decide about treatment:
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Our goal is to help you live as well as you can for as long as you can using the optimal combination of conventional, complementary and integrative therapies and approaches. Here you'll find resources for cervical cancer. You can also use the search box in the upper right corner of every page or go to Search Therapy Summaries and search for your cancer.
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Integrative Approaches and SurgerySurgery may be part of the recommended treatment for this cancer type. We provide helpful information about how integrative approaches can coordinate with surgery on our Integrative Approaches and Surgery page. |
A starting place for the science and conventional therapies:
- National Cancer Institute:
- Cancer.net: Cervical Cancer
Integrative Care in Cervical Cancer
A 2018 article in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine provides an excellent overview of integrative therapies: Integrative medicine for female patients with gynecologic cancer.1 BCCT highly recommends this information source. We will create our own summary with more information soon.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Professional Guidelines (Login required)
- American Society of Clinical Oncology: Gynecologic Cancer
Integrative Programs, Protocols and Medical Systems
| For more information about programs and protocols, see our Integrative Programs and Protocols page. |
- Programs and protocols
Advocacy and Support Groups
National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Advocacy and Support Groups; select gynecologic cancer or another topic of interest from the dropdown menu.
More Information
- National Cancer Institute: Contact Us for Help
Information specialists at the NCI Contact Center are available to help answer your cancer-related questions in English and Spanish whether you are a patient, family member or friend, health care provider, or researcher. We also respond to questions and requests for information about NCI and its programs and provide support in quitting smoking. - Reynel M, Villegas Y, Kiene H, Werthmann PG, Kienle GS. Intralesional and subcutaneous application of Viscum album L. (European mistletoe) extract in cervical carcinoma in situ: a CARE compliant case report. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Nov;97(48):e13420.
- Barbara MacDonald, ND, LAc: Articles/Resources
- Gurdev Parmar and Tina Kaczor: Textbook of Naturopathic Oncology
- News Medical Life Sciences: What is Cervical Cancer?
- September 2018 Issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
- Ralph Moss, PhD: The Moss Reports
Related Pages
In the News
- It’s official: Minimally invasive hysterectomy not safer in cervical cancer
- Measuring financial distress and quality of life over time in patients with gynecologic cancer—making the case to screen early in the treatment course
- New NCCN Guidelines help patients better understand and participate in the care of their cervical cancer
- Image-guided percutaneous thermal ablation for advanced gynecologic cancers
- Half of women treated for gynecologic cancers miss or skip doses of oral drugs
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