Surgical approaches for vulvar
cancer include:
- Laser surgery for vulvar cancer:
- Vulvectomy:
- Skinning vulvectomy: removes the skin of the vulva that contains the cancer
- Partial vulvectomy: removes less than the entire vulva
- Simple vulvectomy: removes the entire vulva, but no lymph nodes
- Radical vulvectomy: removes the entire vulva and the lymph nodes
Surgical treatment of vulvar
cancer may require:
- Wide local excision:
- Removal of the cancer and some of the normal tissue around the cancer
- Radical local excision:
- Removal of the cancer and a larger portion of normal tissue or lymph nodes
- Reconstructive surgery:
- Grafting skin from another part of the body, in order to replace skin that was removed
