title: New developments in the treatment of invasive cervical cancer.
abstract: Cervical cancer is a preventable disease that is curable when it is detected early. For advanced-stage cancer, the prognosis is worse. Over the years, much progress has been made in radiation therapy and in chemotherapy, but it took three decades for the arrival of concurrent chemoradiation therapy, which significantly improved the survival among women with advanced cervical cancer. This fact underscores the need and the importance for continuing efforts in clinical research. While current standards of therapy are being fine-tuned as more information is being gathered, great strides are being made in the areas of molecular and cancer biology. Novel treatments for cervical cancer appear to be imminent in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center; Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, 101 The City Drive, Building 23, Room 107, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
authors.forename: Samuel S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Im
authors.forename: Bradley J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Monk
mesh_terms: D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D019496:Cancer Vaccines