Post Date August, 27 2023
Cervical cancer is a familiar disease and a serious malignant tumor that poses serious risks to women's lives, physical health, and even life safety. We need to detect and treat it early.
Symptoms of cervical cancer
1. Contact bleeding: manifested as droplets of fresh blood mixed with vaginal discharge (vaginal discharge) after sexual intercourse or constipation, sometimes appearing in a filamentous or dark red color. Women over the age of 30 who have already given birth and live together as spouses should pay attention to the sudden appearance of punctate vaginal bleeding after sexual intercourse as an early signal of cervical cancer.
2. Irregular vaginal bleeding: manifested as a small amount of non menstrual vaginal bleeding between two menstrual periods and postmenopausal vaginal bleeding. The former is easily seen as menstrual irregularities, while the latter is easily seen as a manifestation of menopause. However, this irregular vaginal bleeding is the initial symptom of patients in the early stages of cervical cancer.
3. Abnormal vaginal discharge: an increase in vaginal discharge accompanied by changes in color and odor. The symptoms of increased vaginal discharge are generally later than contact bleeding, initially with normal color and odor, gradually becoming serous secretions. In the late stage of cervical cancer, there are Misi like and water like vaginal discharge.
Key points for early diagnosis of cervical cancer
1. Actively participating in cervical screening: Women who have already had sexual activity should undergo regular gynecological examinations and use effective screening methods under the guidance of doctors, which makes it possible to detect cervical lesions early.
2. Pathological examination diagnosis: When the doctor suspects that there is a lesion in the cervix and there are abnormalities in the cytological examination, it is necessary to use biopsy forceps under direct vision or colposcopy to biopsy the cervical lesion. One or more points of tissue can be taken for pathological examination. Pathological diagnosis is the standard for diagnosing cervical cancer.
3. Familiar with the early signs of cervical cancer: contact vaginal bleeding, irregular vaginal bleeding, vaginal bleeding after amenorrhea, unclean menstruation, increased vaginal discharge with odor, etc. may be early signs of cervical cancer. After experiencing these symptoms, one should seek medical attention as soon as possible and undergo relevant examinations such as women's examination, cytology, colposcopy, and cervical biopsy.
4. Don't underestimate cervicitis: cervicitis is a common disease in women. Patients are often accompanied by increased odor of vaginal secretions, itching of the vaginal and external genitalia, and some patients may experience a small amount of contact vaginal bleeding after examination in women during sexual intercourse. When seeking medical treatment for the above symptoms, if no cervical screening has been conducted or if the re screening time has exceeded, cervical cytology, HPV examination, and other cervical cancer and precancerous lesions should be excluded first, and then cervicitis should be considered. Otherwise, it is easy to miss the opportunity for early diagnosis of cervical cancer.
