Treatment Options for Recurrent Vulvar Cancer
It is important to have regular follow-up exams to check for recurrentvulvar cancer. Treatment of recurrent vulvar cancer may include the following:
- Wide local excision with or without radiation therapy.
- Radical vulvectomy and pelvic exenteration.
- Radiation therapy and chemotherapy given during the same period of time, with or without surgery.
- Radiation therapy followed by surgery or chemotherapy.
- Radiation therapy as palliative treatment to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.
- A clinical trial of a new treatment.
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent vulvar cancer. For more specific results, refine the search by using other search features, such as the location of the trial, the type of treatment, or the name of the drug. General information about clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
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