Do you know what is the most common malignant tumor of the reproductive organs in mainland women? The answer is only three words: cervical cancer!
In just one year in 2020, the number of newly diagnosed cervical cancer patients in the mainland reached 110,000. Although there is now an HPV vaccine and a complete cervical cancer screening, after all, this has only begun to be popularized in the mainland in recent years.
The development of cervical cancer, from precancerous lesions to carcinoma in situ, to invasive cancer is a long time, before the vast majority of women did not pay attention to cervical health. Because of this, most of these cervical cancer patients clinically diagnosed in the mainland have entered the middle and advanced stages.
So the question is, what are the symptoms of cervical cancer, and is there any hope of catching cancer in the early stage?
Cervical cancer is the same as other cancerous types, and the severity of clinical symptoms is directly related to the specific type of disease and stage of the patient. Under the condition of general examination, cervical intraepithelial tumors become degenerate, microscopic early invasive carcinoma, and patients basically have no symptoms. It was only during a cervical cancer screening that the fact that the cervix had become cancerous was discovered;
Patients with cervical cancer who enter stage 1 and stage 2 will gradually develop symptoms, and their most typical manifestations are the following two:
1. Vaginal bleeding
Vaginal bleeding in the earliest stage of the manifestation of contact bleeding, because the position of the cervix is very special, it is the connection between the vagina and the uterus, so in the process of sex, women for gynecological double examination, it may cause squeezing and collision of cancer, resulting in the rupture of blood vessels on the surface of the tumor, the appearance of private parts of the discharge of blood, drip blood and other symptoms, clinically called contact bleeding.
Next, after the cancer gradually invades the blood vessels in the interstitial and itself erodes and necrosis, there will be a small amount of irregular bleeding during non-menstruation or postmenopausal periods, and when the advanced lesion is larger, it will be manifested as a large amount of bleeding;
2. Changes in secretions
Patients with cervical cancer may have induced secretion changes, such as cervical mucinous adenocarcinoma, which is affected by the secretion of mucus from cancer lesions during the development of the disease, and may have watery, mucus-like fluid discharge in the private parts.
Other types of cervical cancer patients, in the early stage of the development of the disease, the amount of private secretions is not much, showing white, yellowish and mostly odorless. With the rupture of cancerous tissue and secondary infection, the patient's private parts can discharge a large amount of liquid similar to rice soup, purulent or purulent blood, accompanied by an unpleasant foul odor, and sometimes the secretion may also be mixed with blood clots and necrotic tissue.
Of course, symptoms are not the way to diagnose cervical cancer, they are just a signal from the body to be sick. There are many diagnostic programs that are really suitable for cervical cancer, including colposcopic screening, vaginal cytology, biopsy, etc.
Among them, pathological biopsy is the most important, it is the best way to diagnose cervical cancer, determine the type and stage of cancer, and it is also the most indispensable examination method in the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer.
Written in the end: the most typical manifestation of cervical cancer is the above two categories, if there is recent inexplicable bleeding in the private parts, bleeding after sex, it is necessary to be highly vigilant about whether it is cervical cancer, patients should actively seek medical treatment, tell their main symptoms to the doctor, and then follow the doctor's recommendations for relevant screening.
Once diagnosed with cervical cancer, no matter what stage the disease is in, it should start treatment, the sooner the cervical cancer is controlled, the better the prognosis will be.