Early symptoms of cervical cancer

As we all know, cervical cancer seriously threatens women's life and health. However, due to the extremely low cure rate in the late stage, it is very important and necessary for women to understand the early symptoms of cervical cancer, clarify the treatment of cervical cancer, and be familiar with the prevention of cervical cancer. So, what are the early symptoms of cervical cancer patients? The following editor will introduce them to you.

Early symptoms of cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is a female malignancy, and its high-risk population is mostly those who marry early, have children early, have multiple births, and have sexual disorder. Generally speaking, cervical cancer is confined to the cervix in the early stage and has not yet spread to other surrounding tissues, so patients often do not have particularly obvious symptoms, but abnormal vaginal bleeding is often one of the early symptoms, and the specific manifestations are as follows:

1. Accompanied by cervical erosion

Generally, cervical cancer patients are often accompanied by cervical erosion, and severe cervical erosion is the main cause of cancer. Young women with long-term untreated cervical erosion, or those who still have cervical erosion after menopause, should be given enough attention.

2. Contact bleeding

Contact bleeding is the most prominent symptom of cervical cancer. About 70%-80% of cervical cancer patients have vaginal bleeding. It is often manifested as vaginal discharge mixed with blood after sexual intercourse, gynecological examination, or when straining to defecate. If elderly women experience bleeding after sexual intercourse, do not always think that it is caused by improper force during sexual intercourse and ignore the possibility of cervical cancer. If bleeding occurs every time after sexual intercourse, it should be taken seriously and medical treatment should be sought in time.

3. Irregular vaginal bleeding

Elderly women who have been in menopause for many years suddenly have their periods again for no apparent reason. The amount of bleeding is usually small and is not accompanied by abdominal pain, back pain, and other symptoms, which can be easily ignored. In fact, this irregular vaginal bleeding is often an early sign of cervical cancer. Many elderly patients come to the doctor for this symptom, and receive early diagnosis and timely treatment. Therefore, the elderly should be highly vigilant.

4. Pain

Pain often occurs in the lower abdomen or lumbosacral region, and sometimes in the upper abdomen, thighs and hip joints. It worsens during menstruation, defecation or sexual intercourse, especially when inflammation spreads backward along the uterosacral ligament or along the bottom of the broad ligament, forming chronic parauterine connective tissue inflammation and thickening of the main ligament of the cervix. Whenever the cervix is ​​touched, it immediately causes pain in the iliac fossa and lumbosacral region. Some patients even experience nausea and other symptoms, which affect their sexual life.

5. Increased vaginal discharge

Clinically, about 75%-85% of cervical cancer patients have varying degrees of increased vaginal discharge, mostly manifested as increased leucorrhea, and later accompanied by changes in odor and color. Under normal circumstances, the nature and amount of leucorrhea are determined by the rise and fall of ovarian function. Women of childbearing age have cyclical changes in leucorrhea; postmenopausal women have very little leucorrhea. Due to the stimulation of cancer foci, the secretion function of cervical glands in patients with cervical cancer is hyperactive, producing mucous leucorrhea, so patients of childbearing age no longer have cyclical changes in the nature and amount of leucorrhea: postmenopausal patients are contrary to the norm, with increased leucorrhea, which is sticky and sometimes bloody. This abnormal manifestation of leucorrhea, including the increase in quantity and change in its nature, is an early symptom of cervical cancer.

What are the early symptoms of cervical cancer patients? The above is what the editor introduced to you, I hope it will be helpful to you.