In some good news for women battling locally advanced cervical cancer, new research shows that adding six weeks of chemotherapy to standard treatment cuts the risk of death by 40%.

Adding a six-week course of chemotherapy to the standard course of treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer resulted in a significant increase in survival rates, a new study shows.

A short course of chemotherapy given before conventional treatment significantly cuts the risk of dying from cervical cancer, according to new study results.

A new treatment regime for cervical cancer cuts the risk of death by 40%, according to a large-scale study.Researchers at University College London (UCL) and University College London Hospital (UCLH) have completed a long-term follow up of patients given a short course of chemotherapy before chemoradiation (a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy).