A 55-year-old woman was found to have Ca cervix, FIGO stage 2-3, locally advanced. What would be the management?:: (A) Surgery plus chemotherapy, (B) radiotherapy plus chemotherapy, (C) Chemotherapy, (D) Radiotherapy plus HPV vaccine
Answer is B. As discussed in detail in preceeding text best for cervical cancer of (stages II B to IV A) is chemoradiation (i.e. chemotherapy and radiotherapy), where by cisplatin is used as a radiosensitiser to increase the sensitivity of the cells to radiotherapy before giving radiotherapy.
Since in this question –chemotherapy + radiotherapy is given as one of the options, hence, we will mark it as the correct option.