Gynecology Oncology

With an emphasis on early detection and treatment for gynecologic cancer, specialists at the University of Illinois Medical Center are helping women lead longer, better lives. Working as partners in healthcare with you, your other health providers, and your family, University of Illinois Medical Center offers the latest advances in care for women with cancer or precancerous conditions of the female reproductive organs (cervix, uterus, ovary, fallopian tube, vagina and vulva).

Our specialists have substantial expertise diagnosing and treating gynecologic cancers, including:

• Cervical cancer. Cervical cancer begins with abnormal microscopic changes to cells in the cervix epithelium, the surface skin layer of the cervix.
• Fallopian-tube cancer. This very rare malignancy develops from cells inside the fallopian tubes (the two passageways between the ovaries and the uterus).
• Ovarian cancer. Most common among women after age 65, ovarian cancer refers to any malignant tumor that begins in the ovaries.
• Uterine cancer. Uterine cancer is the most prevalent cancer of the female reproductive tract and accounts for 13 percent of all cancers in women.
• Vaginal cancer. Vaginal cancer occurs when cancer cells develop in the tissues of the vagina, the passage connecting the cervix (the opening of the uterus or womb) with the vulva (the external genitalia).
• Vulvar cancer. Vulvar cancer is a malignancy of the vulva, the external genital area of a woman's reproductive system.