How long can you live with cervical cancer?

  Because of the different stages of cervical cancer, the survival time varies from person to person. Generally, the survival time of early stage cervical cancer may be more than 10 years, while the survival time of advanced stage cervical cancer may be 1 to 2 years.  For patients with early stage cervical cancer, since the cancer cells are only locally distributed in the cervix and have not metastasized elsewhere outside the uterine body, they can be cured by active laparotomy, complete removal of uterine adnexa and pelvic lymph node dissection, and postoperative treatment, with a cure rate of more than 90%. However, there are cases of recurrence five years after surgery, which only occur in a few women. For patients with advanced cervical cancer, the cancer cells have metastasized to other parts of the body outside the uterus, resulting in unlimited proliferation of cancer cells in the whole body, so there is no way to completely cure the cancer by surgery, and radiotherapy cannot kill the cancer cells in the whole body. Some patients with advanced cervical cancer, without active symptomatic treatment, their survival time cannot even exceed half a year.  Therefore, women with cervical cancer should undergo a comprehensive examination as soon as possible to confirm the specific stage and then undergo symptomatic treatment.