Study	Reason for exclusion
Adewuyi 2010	Single‐arm study (without a comparison group) involving the use of chemotherapy at a dose of 70 mg/m2 every 3 weeks in women with cervical cancer. Chemotherapy was not part of review protocol intervention
Ahmedov 2013	Presented as a poster abstract at the European Cancer Congress in 2013 at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The abstract was a single‐arm (no comparison group) study that involved the selective embolisation and chemoembolisation (with the aid of doxorubicin) of anterior branch of internal iliac artery performed on 78 women with cervical cancer
Banaschak 1985	Case series of 12 women with acute massive or chronic tumour haemorrhage, treated with embolisation (without a comparison group) with only 10 out of the 12 women having cervical cancer, while 1 woman with progressive malignant mesenchymal tumour in vagina and 1 with local persistent ovarian cancer
Biswal 1995	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 20 women with refractory haemorrhagic carcinoma of the uterine cervix receiving haemostatic radiotherapy (external and intracavitary radiotherapy) between April 1987 and May 1992
Ermolov 2003	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study involving the use of free Gianturco‐type spirals for embolisation of internal iliac and uterine arteries in 24 women, out of which only 2 had diagnosis of cervical cancer
Fletcher 2002	Case series involving the application of formaldehyde‐soaked packs to stop intractable vaginal bleeding in 2 cases of gestational trophoblastic disease and primary postpartum haemorrhage due to vaginal laceration
Grigsby 2002	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study on the use of the high‐dose rate cervical ring applicator to control acute cervical bleeding from carcinoma of the uterine cervix in 15 women presenting with acute vaginal bleeding requiring blood transfusion
Ishikawa 1986	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 6 women with severe vaginal bleeding treated with transcatheter embolisation of selected pelvic vessels with only 3 women having carcinoma of the cervix, 1 with dysfunctional uterine bleeding and 2 women had gestational trophoblastic disease with bleeding from vaginal metastases
Kim 2013	Single‐arm (without comparison) retrospective study of 17 women with cancer of the cervix, who underwent palliative hypofractionated 3‐dimensional conformal radiotherapy between January 2002 and June 2012, and were retrospectively analysed
Konski 2005	Review based on palliative radiotherapy
Kraiphibul 1993	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 35 women with massive vaginal bleeding due to carcinoma of the cervix treated via cobalt‐60 teletherapy covering the whole pelvic region by 12 x 12 cm2 or 16 x 16 cm2 field sizes from 1 June 1981 to 31 May 1991
Kramer 1999	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 13 women with advanced cervical cancer treated with embolisation performed by transfemoral access using mini coils in most cases, liquid agents less often and a covered vascular stent in 1 woman
Kwawukume 1996	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 7 cases of extraperitoneal ligation of the hypogastric arteries to control bleeding from advanced cervical cancer (in 5 cases) and choriocarcinoma (in 2 cases). Hypogastric artery ligation was not part of the review protocol intervention
Mihmanli 2001	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 6 women, 4 with cervix carcinoma, 1 endometrium carcinoma, and 1 vaginal metastasis of ovarian carcinoma that underwent percutaneous embolisation due to intractable vaginal bleeding using polyvinyl alcohol particles as the embolic agent
Mishra 2005	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 100 women treated with parallel‐opposed pelvic portals with megavoltage radiotherapy monthly up to a maximum of 3 fractions (10 Gy/fraction)
Onsrud 2001	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of the effects of single fractions of 10 Gy pelvic irradiation for palliation and life prolongation on 37 women with cervical cancer and 27 women with corpus cancer treated in 1988‐1998
Pereira 2004	Review based on treatment options available to manage visible bleeding from advanced cancer
Ratliff 1992	Short communication based on preventing cervical bleeding with Monsel's solution in gynaecological oncology when bleeding from cervical and vaginal biopsies was difficult to control. Monsel's solution was not part of the review protocol intervention
Skliarenko 2012	Review based on palliative pelvic radiotherapy for gynaecological cancer
Yamashita 1994	Single‐arm (without comparison group) study of 32 women; 15 with postpartum haemorrhage, 12 with primary cervical cancer and 5 other malignant neoplasms that underwent transcatheter arterial embolisation. Only 10 women underwent subsequent treatment with radiotherapy. Results were not compared with transcatheter arterial embolisation group
Yanazume 2013a	Case report of a 55‐year‐old, multiparous woman with massive genital bleeding despite prior 1‐year concurrent chemoradiation (pelvic radiation and intra‐cavitary radiation) for FIGO stage IIIb squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. She achieved complete haemostasis with a single application of Mohs' paste
Zeghal 2013	Case series involving the selective arterial embolisation in 3 cases of women having vaginal bleeding in advanced cervical cancer