Gynaecological Cancer

Our Genetics Clinic is founded on the principle that clinical geneticists are best placed to estimate the risk of inherited gynaecological cancer in an individual woman.

The Post Menopausal Bleeding (PMB) Clinic is designed to explore the cause of vaginal bleeding after the menopause which happens more than one year after the normal period. We provide a fast and efficient way of investigating the cause of the bleeding, with the main aim of excluding cancer as the cause.

It can occur as spotting or be like a period. It can be a single event or can be recurrent for a period of time.

If cancer is diagnosed, an urgent referral to the cancer centre is made.

Our service offers full diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for a wide range of vulval disorders. We have clinics which cover outpatient, day case and inpatient treatment.

Available for patients with endometrial cancer, though in the event that this is not possible, a hysterectomy via an abdominal incision (laparotomy) is performed.

This procedure involves removal of the cervix, rim of the vagina and para-cervical tissue. It is a fertility preserving operation aimed at preserving the uterus in women with cervical cancer who have not had children.

We offer keyhole surgery for carefully selected women with cervical cancer.

Pelvic exenterative surgery is offered when cancer is confined within the pelvis with no other evidence of extra pelvic metastatic disease, and when other treatments, are no longer available.  It is mainly required for recurrent pelvic cancer arising from the genital tract. It is also performed for urological and bowel cancers.

This technique identifies the first draining lymph node in patients with small vulval cancer, thus potentially sparing them from more extensive surgery. We are one of only a few cancer centres in the UK offering this service routinely.