Cervical cancer
Written by admin on October 15th, 2008 in Cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is a type of cancer which affects the woman. The most common victims of cervical cancer are those women who are aged above 40. Cervical cancer is generally caused by HPV which will be transmitted by the sexual contact and after a certain period of time leads to the cancerous cells of cervix. When the tumour develops, it produces a variety of symptoms including the abnormal bleeding, the abnormal vaginal discharge, the pelvic back pains, pain while the urination, blood in the stool or urine. To have these symptoms cannot mean that there is cervical cancer. It is always best to consult your doctor when you feel any of these problems. If cervical cancer is detected early, it can be treated without deteriorating the fertility.
The best manner of detecting cervical cancer is to undergo the current regular cervical tests. The cervical cancer screening test is one of the best manners of detecting cervical cancer in the early stage. This test is not painful and just implies taking of cells from your cervix for the examination under microscope. The PAP test results are generally given as estimate on a scale from 1 to 5 where in 1 indicates the normal cervix cells and 5 indicates the serious signs of cancer. Although medical research constantly tries to create new and better manners of detecting cervical cancer, the PAP tests are the best technique that we have available today for the early tracking of cervical cancer. However, the PAP tests are not always precise and if other symptoms strongly suggest cervical cancer, a second round of the cervical tests could be recommended by the doctor.
Cervical cancer begins when the cells in the cervix start to develop uncontrollably forming a mass of additional tissue called the tumour. The malignant tumours are cancer cells, which can spread and damage the adjacent tissues and organs. The Cancer cells can also enter in to lymphatic system or blood circulation by breaking away malignant tumour. Thus cervical cancer extends to other parts of the body such as nearby lymph nodes, bones of the spine, and lungs. The propagation of cancer is a process.
Like any other cancer, cervical cancer has also different stages. Stage 0 is when cancer is located on the top layer of cells where stage 1 is when cancer is found in the cervix. In stage 2 Nearby fabrics are affected, whereas in stage 3 when cancer is prolonged to the lower part of the vagina. Stage 4 is when cancer spreads to other parts of the body like the flexible tank and the rectum.
The treatment for cervical cancer includes chemotherapy, the radiation therapy, the surgery or even a combination of all these methods.
The surgery is employed to treat the parts of cervix and body beside it. The radiation therapy is employed when the rays of great energy destroy the cervical cancer cells. There are two kinds of radiation: external and internal. Chemotherapy is defined as treatment where anti-cancer drugs are used to fight against cancer cells. But Chemotherapy have a lot of side effects.