Patient, Cervix

Cervical Cancer - Psychology

Cervical cancer may affect younger women who have not had children, or who have not yet completed their family. Having a hysterectomy^(G), which is often part of the treatment for this cancer, can cause major feelings of loss for this reason, and also because some women feel it causes a loss of femininity.

Anaesthesia^(G) may be required for diagnostic procedures such as hysteroscopy^(G), D and C^(G), EU, and/or laparoscopy^(G) as well as definitive treatment including brachytherapy^(G) or hysterectomy^(G). In addition, some procedures such as LLETZ^(G) and laser cone biopsy^(G) are occasionally performed under a local anaesthetic^(G) with or without conscious sedation^(G).