Affected by the opening of continental sexual concepts, changes in living and eating habits, and a sudden increase in life pressure in recent years, many gynecological malignant tumors have entered a high incidence period, including endometrial cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, etc.
Because of this, there are all kinds of ways to prevent gynecological cancer in life, among which the widely spread is that the removal of the uterus can prevent cancer!
Open the relevant content, you will find that the people who hold this statement blame the original sin of female genital cancer on the womb. It is believed that after the removal of the uterus, there will be no more menstrual cramps, the ovaries will stop ovulating, and the endocrine level will gradually decrease. In this case, the ovaries, cervix, breast and other tissues will not be stimulated by estrogen, and cancer will not occur naturally.
So the question is, can the removal of the uterus really prevent cancer?
First of all, it is clear that the removal of the uterus is indeed a kind of cancer, that is, endometrial cancer.
This is a malignant tumor that appears in the epithelial tissue of the uterus, which is more likely to occur in women during perimenopause and postmenopausal periods, and it is also one of the most common malignant tumors of the reproductive system in mainland China, with a second incidence rate than after ovarian and cervical cancer. Removing the uterus naturally means losing the endometrium, and of course, cancer does not occur!
But to say that removal of the uterus prevents cervical, ovarian or breast cancer is complete nonsense. In the case of breast and ovarian cancers, their incidence is indeed related to estrogen levels, ovulation and other factors. However, the organ of ovulation is not the uterus, but the ovary itself.
The uterus neither ovulates nor produces hormones, it is just an organ that produces menstruation and conceives the fetus. Therefore, the loss of the uterus means that the woman has lost her reproductive function.
Moreover, we must also understand that the emergence of cancer is the result of the joint action of multiple factors, even if ovarian cancer or breast cancer is related to estrogen secretion, age factors, fertility factors, genetic genes, etc., are also affecting the incidence of cancer.
The causes involved in cervical cancer are more complex, including viral infections, cervical inflammation, sexual life and other aspects. This is not a problem that can be solved by removing the uterus.
We turn our heads and look at the removal of the uterus to prevent endometrial cancer, and indeed, you have lost your uterus, and naturally you will not have endometrial cancer again. However, blind removal of the uterus without any risk factors is completely undesirable. Because the loss of the uterus does not only mean that it has lost its reproductive function.
At the same time, after losing the uterus, the pelvic structure of women will also change, affecting the normal operation of the endocrine system, women are prone to vaginal dryness, decreased sexual desire, premature ovarian failure, pelvic floor muscle relaxation and other problems. And because the uterus has been missing, this will more or less affect the mental health of women, in vain to increase the annoyance.
In a word, in the absence of any risk factors, the prevention of cancer by removing the uterus is completely nonsense and even more unrealistic.
Any part of the body has its own value, even if you have no idea of procreation, in unnecessary cases, you do not need to remove the uterus.