Metastatic Cervical Cancer

Patients diagnosed with Stage 4 Cervical Cancer have disease that has spread from the original cancer to one or more distant sites in the body. Stage 4 Cervical Cancer is commonly detected from an abnormal pelvic examination or symptoms produced by the patient’s cancer. Following a staging evaluation of cervical cancer, a Stage 4 cancer is said to exist if the cancer has extended beyond the cervix into adjacent organs, such as the rectum or bladder (Stage 4A), or the cancer has spread to distant locations in the body which may include the bones, lungs or liver (It’s still called cervical cancer, even though it’s moved somewhere else.) or Stage 4B.