What are the early characteristics of cervical cancer? What are the early symptoms of cervical cancer?

Cervical cancer is a common disease among women and has a great impact on women's bodies and lives, so patients should pay attention. For female friends, they are very easy to get sick, so what are the early symptoms of cervical cancer?

What are the early symptoms of cervical cancer?

Irregular vaginal bleeding after menopause: Generally speaking, this condition is more common in menopausal women. This is a unique situation in which the bleeding is not accompanied by any pain, so it is not easy to attract the patient's attention.

Increased vaginal discharge: Commonly known as increased vaginal discharge, this is a relatively easy condition to detect. It can occur before or after signs of contact bleeding, and often emphasizes the color of vaginal discharge in patients with cervical cancer, such as leaking grass, and has a strong fishy smell, but in fact, this kind of vaginal discharge is a sign of advanced cervical cancer. Leucorrhea in early cervical cancer usually does not have these characteristics.

Pain. This is a symptom of advanced cervical cancer. The main cause of pain is that the pelvic nerves are infiltrated or compressed by cancer. If the obturator nerve, sacral nerve, large blood vessels or pelvic wall are affected, it can cause severe pain, sometimes radiating to the lower limbs. Other causes of pain are: the cervical canal is blocked by cancer, the drainage of intrauterine secretions is poor or uterine pus is formed, and the lower abdomen is painful; cancer invades the uterine tissue, compresses or infiltrates, which can cause ureteral or renal pelvic ureteral water, swelling or spasm, severe pain on one or both sides of the lower abdomen; when cancer compresses the iliac lymph and iliac blood vessels to block reflux, the lower limbs are swollen and painful.

Compression symptoms: In the late stage of cervical cancer, various compression symptoms may occur due to the increase of tumors. Pain is one of the common compression symptoms, with an incidence rate of 41. And it is more common in 1% of patients in stages III and IV. In addition, there are a series of secondary symptoms depending on the organs invaded by the lesions. If the lesions invade the pelvic connective tissue, pelvic wall, compress the ureter, rectum, sciatic nerve, the common compression symptoms are lower abdominal pain, back pain, frequent urination, urgency, anal swelling, heaviness, lower limb swelling, sciatica, etc.; cancer compresses or invades the ureter, which can lead to ureteral obstruction, hydronephrosis, renal damage, etc., and eventually lead to death from uremia. These problems will not occur in the early symptoms of cervical cancer.

Treatment options for cervical cancer

Surgery

Ⅰ Total hysterectomy, external fascia. Cut the pubocervical ligament, push the ureter outward, and remove the entire uterus. CIN (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia) and early stromal invasive cancer, that is, stage Ⅰa1 cervical cancer.

II cardinal ligament, half of the inner side of the uterine fundus ligament and one third of the vaginal wall. It is suitable for cervical micro-invasive cancer, i.e. stage Ia2 cervical cancer.

Ⅲ All main ligaments, uterine fundus ligaments and 1/3 of the vaginal wall. Applicable to cervical cancer stage Ib and IIa.

IV: Three-fourths of the paraureteral tissue, superior vesical artery and vaginal wall. Suitable for central recurrent cancer where the bladder can still be preserved.

Partial bladder and distal ureterectomy: This procedure is suitable for recurrent cancer that has invaded the distal bladder and ureter.

Chemotherapy

So far, cervical cancer is not sensitive to most anticancer drugs, and the effective rate of chemotherapy does not exceed 15%. Advanced patients can be treated with comprehensive treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Chemotherapy drugs can be intravenously or locally injected with 5-fluorouracil and doxorubicin.