What are the symptoms of uterine cancer

What are the symptoms of cervical cancer? Cervical cancer brings great physical and psychological harm to female friends. The symptoms of cervical cancer are not uncomfortable and are often found during physical examinations and censuses. Many patients seek medical treatment because of contact vaginal bleeding. During stool and vaginal examinations, there is often painless vaginal bleeding. A few patients have increased vaginal discharge, which is pink and has a foul odor. For postmenopausal women, if vaginal bleeding is found, it should be taken seriously and they should go to the hospital for special examinations in time.

Patients with cervical precancerous lesions generally do not show obvious symptoms, or only have general symptoms of cervicitis, such as increased leucorrhea. Some patients also complain of bloody leucorrhea or a small amount of vaginal bleeding after sexual contact. Severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is a precancerous lesion. It is reversible, that is, some lesions can disappear naturally, but it is also progressive, that is, the lesions can develop and even become cancerous. Its reversibility and progression are related to the scope and extent of the lesion. Mild intraepithelial neoplasia is significantly more likely to disappear naturally than moderate and severe lesions. Severe intraepithelial neoplasia is significantly more likely to develop into cancer than mild and moderate lesions. Some scholars also believe that mild cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is a benign abnormal proliferation that can naturally return to normal.

Clinical follow-up observations show that it takes about 10 years for general cervical precancerous lesions to develop into cervical cancer. From this perspective, cervical cancer is not terrible, it is a preventable and curable disease. The key to prevention and treatment is: regular gynecological examinations, timely detection and treatment of cervical precancerous lesions, and termination of their development into cervical cancer. If prevention and control measures can be implemented, the cure rate of cervical cancer is very high. The following is a detailed explanation of the symptoms of cervical cancer:

1. Accompanied by cervical erosion: Generally, cervical cancer patients are often accompanied by cervical erosion. 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 in gynecological examinations or when straining to defecate, and vaginal secretions are mixed with blood. If elderly women encounter bleeding, do not always think that it is caused by improper force and ignore the possibility of cervical cancer.

3. Irregular vaginal bleeding: Elderly women who have been in menopause for many years suddenly have their periods again for no 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 a sign of cervical cancer. Many elderly patients come to the doctor for this symptom, get diagnosed and receive 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 the inflammation spreads backward along the uterosacral ligament or along the bottom of the broad ligament, forming chronic parauterine connective tissue inflammation, and the main ligament of the cervix thickens, the pain is even worse. 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 amount and change in its nature, is a symptom of cervical cancer.