Society guideline links: Vulvar cancer and vaginal cancer

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC): Clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of gynecologic cancer (2023)

●Consensus recommendations for radiation therapy contouring and treatment of vulvar carcinoma (2016)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Guideline for the management of squamous cell cancer of the vulva (2019)

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Sentinel lymph node biopsy in vulvar cancer (2018)

●British Columbia (BC) Guidelines: Genital tract cancers in females – Human papillomavirus related cancers (cervical, vaginal, and vulvar) (2014, revised 2016)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on staging and follow-up of primary vaginal cancer (2021)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on staging and follow-up of vulvar cancer (2020)

●American Brachytherapy Society (ABS): Consensus guidelines for interstitial brachytherapy for vaginal cancer (2012)

Europe

●European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO): Guidelines on vulvar cancer, update (2023)

●Gynaecological (GYN) Groupe Européen de Curiethérapie (GEC)-European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) working group – Advisory Committee on Radiation Oncology Practice (ACROP): Recommendations on the target concept for image guided adaptive brachytherapy in primary vaginal cancer (2020)

United Kingdom

●British Gynaecological Cancer Society (BGCS): Vulval cancer guidelines – Recommendations for practice (2020)

●BGCS: Sentinel consensus document for vulval, endometrial, and cervical cancer (2019)

Japan

●[In English] Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology (JSGO): Guidelines for the treatment of vulvar cancer and vaginal cancer, 2015 (published 2018)

●[In Japanese] JSGO: Guidelines for the treatment of vulvar and vaginal cancer (2015)