THE findings of a long-term localised study on cancers of a woman's reproductive organs have allowed KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) to come up with specific guidelines to treat and manage the disease.

This is most significant in the treatment for uterine cancer at the hospital's Gynaecological Cancer Centre (GCC), which is more aggressive than that carried out at other research centres in the United States and Australia.

The 10-year study, involving 4,000 patients, focused on cancer of the cervix, uterus and ovary as well as, more uncommonly, the vulva and vagina.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.