The uterus is the organ that produces menstruation and is also an important place for women to conceive a baby. Any woman needs to protect the uterus and keep the environment of the uterus clean to maintain its health.
Under normal circumstances, in addition to the pregnancy of the baby, the uterus will be in a hollow state. If a foreign body is found to grow in the uterus, it must be caused by a disease, of which the more common is uterine fibroids.
The clinical incidence of uterine fibroids is high and is a benign fibroid disease that is more common in women. Some people also call it uterine fibroids, fibromyomas, uterine leiomyomas, etc.
The reason for the disease may be because the mesophyll cells in the uterus are stimulated by undesirable factors to proliferate into smooth muscle cells after being stimulated by undefined, and then form uterine fibroids; it may also be caused by heredity.
Some women, after being diagnosed with uterine fibroids, are very worried about whether their condition will deteriorate. So, do uterine fibroids change?
Under normal circumstances, clinical fibroids are generally benign, and it is also believed in medicine that the probability of malignant changes in uterine fibroids is very small, only about 0.4%-0.8%.
Because uterine fibroids grow slowly, most patients do not need special treatment after discovering the condition, but only need regular observation and pay attention to the maintenance of the body.
However, the doctor will also remind the patient that if the uterine fibroids are relatively small, within the standard of normal growth, the patient does not need to be nervous without obvious symptoms of discomfort, but if the growth of fibroids exceeds the following 3 standards, they should be vigilant.
1. The diameter of fibroids exceeds 5 cm
Under normal circumstances, a single fibroid is less than 5 cm in diameter, and the patient's body does not need special treatment without obvious symptoms of discomfort. If it is found that the diameter of the fibroids has exceeded 5 cm, or the size of the uterus is already larger than the 2 or 3 months of pregnancy, it is necessary for the patient to undergo surgery to remove the fibroids so that the fibroids will not change malignantly.
2, the growth rate is too fast
Normally, fibroids in the uterus grow at a rate of 1-2 mm per year. If the growth rate of uterine fibroids is too fast, growing more than 8 cm in a short period of time, it is necessary to be vigilant against high malignant changes in fibroids, and timely measures need to be taken for treatment.
3. The patient's symptoms are obvious
Clinically, there are many patients with uterine fibroids who do not have obvious symptoms of discomfort, unless the location where the fibroids grow compresses the surrounding tissues or undergoes malignant changes, patients will have abdominal pain, bleeding, vaginal discharge abnormalities and other symptoms.
At this time, it is necessary to receive regular treatment in time to improve the condition, and if necessary, it is necessary to do a puncture biopsy to determine the nature of fibroids and take corresponding treatment.
Although most of the uterine fibroids are benign, there are also a very small number of people who will have malignant changes, so if you have the above 3 situations, it is best to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.
In addition, there are also some situations that need to be paid attention to. For example, if there are direct elders in the family who have malignant changes after suffering from uterine fibroids, their descendants should also be vigilant to prevent fibroid malignancy. If you have a disease that causes hyperfunction of the ovaries, you should also actively treat the primary disease so as not to increase the incidence of malignancy of uterine fibroids.