Vaginal cancer MDT — staging and treatment-planning station

Station brief

Format. Staging and treatment-planning station, approximately 12 minutes. You are the gynaecology oncology registrar presenting this woman to the multidisciplinary team meeting. The assessor plays the MDT chair and asks you to apply the FIGO definition, stage the tumour, and propose the treatment plan with its rationale. ^[1]

Candidate instruction. Confirm this is a primary vaginal cancer, assign the FIGO stage from the imaging, and propose the definitive management with drug specifics and the rationale for the chosen modality. Address the HPV field effect in your surveillance plan. ^[2]