The three treatment modalities for cervical cancer include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. While many patients assume that removing cervical cancer with surgery is the best way to cure their disease, this is typically not the case outside of very early stage disease. Chemoradiation, which is the combination of chemotherapy and radiation, is the best approach for the treatment of most cervical cancers. Radiation is targeted at the tumor in the cervix to shrink and kill the cancerous cells,