CANCER OF UTERINE NECK

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	CANCER OF UTERINE NECK
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CANCER OF UTERINE NECK

Cancer of uterine neck

A common, treatable and foreseeable cancer, of the feminine reproductive system.

It affects to the neck of the uterus or cervix (the inferior third of the uterus, that is opened to the vagina) to any age, but is commonest of the 30 to the 50 years.

Causes

There is a relation important epidemiologist between the cancer of cervix and the infection of same by some papilomavirus (the virus that produce warts).

One knows that this group of virus is oncogénico (they facilitate the malignant transformation of the infected cells).

Signs and symptoms

In his first stage, easily treatable, there are no symptoms.

Advanced stages:

Vaginal hemorrhages without cause

Persistent vaginal unloadings

Pain and hemorrhage after the sexual act

Terminal stages:

Abdominal pain

Lee dripping and tinkles through the vagina

Loss of appetite and weight

Anemia

Factors of risk

Poor economic layer.

Early beginning of sexual relations.

Multiple sexual companions.

Frequent sexual relations during the adolescence.

Virus of papiloma human (probably, the previous factors of risk are related to the facility to become infected with this virus).

Multiple childbirths.

Recurrent vaginal infections (bacterial or viral, including herpes and genital warts).

Not to be regularly made an examination and/or a cytology pelvic.

Prevention

Avoid the described risks as far as possible previously.

Sométase to periodic pelvic examinations as of the 18 years or when beginning the sexual activity.

Sométase to the test of Papanicolau (cytology) with regularity. The pelvic recognitions and the cytologies are very effective and detect precancerous changes in their asintomática phase.

Consult with its doctor, Center of Familiar Planning or Center of Health with how much regularity must pass the tests.

The Public Health will facilitate these tests to him without cost some.

Diagnosis and treatment

Diagnosis:

Its own observation of the symptoms, specially any inexplicable vaginal hemorrhage.

File and clinical recognition by its doctor or gynecologist.

Examination with magnifying glass of the cervix (colposcopia)

Analysis like cytologies and biopsies.

Surgical procedures of diagnosis and treatment, like the conización of the cervix.

Treatment:

Fundamentally surgical, whose importance will depend on the extension of the cancer at the moment of the diagnosis.

Medication

Generally, medication for this disease is not needed, whenever it is diagnosed and it treated on time.

to be needed an additional treatment to the surgery, his doctor can prescribe:

Anticancerous medicines.

Analgesic.

Complications

If this cancer is not treated soon, it extends outside pélvix to other parts of the body and causes the death.

Prognosis

It is possible to be cured whenever it is diagnosed before the tumor extends.

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