Is abnormal vaginal discharge a manifestation of cervical cancer? What are the symptoms of cervical cancer?

Cervical cancer is one of the common malignant tumors in women. However, although many people know that cervical cancer is a common tumor in women, they lack common knowledge about the symptoms of cervical cancer. If the symptoms of cervical cancer are not discovered in time, it will seriously threaten people's life safety. Therefore, this article mainly introduces the symptoms of cervical cancer to help you detect symptoms in time and seek medical treatment in time.

What are the symptoms of cervical cancer? Before understanding this issue, it is worth saying first that the occurrence of cervical cancer often has no early signs. Once the disease develops, there will be more and more symptoms. The symptoms of cervical cancer are as follows.

The main symptoms of cervical cancer are:

1. Vaginal bleeding: After clinical cervical cancer occurs, vaginal bleeding generally manifests as long-term continuous vaginal bleeding without any discernible cycle. The amount of bleeding depends on the size of the lesion and the invasion of blood vessels in the interstitium.

The amount of bleeding in the early stage is small, but the lesions in the late stage are large. Once the large blood vessels are eroded, it may cause fatal bleeding.

2. Bleeding after sexual intercourse: The appearance of blood immediately after sexual intercourse is a symptom of early cervical cancer.

3. Vaginal bleeding with increased leucorrhea: If this symptom occurs, it is generally considered to be advanced cervical cancer

4. Vaginal discharge: Among the symptoms of cervical cancer, many patients often mention that their vaginal discharge increases, is white or bloody, thin like water or rice water, and has a fishy smell. In the late stage, due to the rupture of cancer tissue, tissue necrosis and secondary infection, there is a large amount of pus or rice soup-like smelly leucorrhea.

5. Abnormal vaginal discharge. Normally, it is white, thin or egg white-like, highly viscous, odorless, and small in quantity. Once cervical cancer occurs, the color, properties, and quantity of vaginal discharge will change. Specifically,

① The patient's leucorrhea is pus-like, yellow or yellow-green, sticky, and often has a peculiar smell

② Bloody leucorrhea. Leucorrhea is mixed with blood, and the amount of blood is different.

③ If watery leucorrhea continues to flow out with an odor, it is generally an advanced stage of cervical cancer.

④ Increased leucorrhea

6. Menstrual changes.

①Young patients may also experience prolonged menstruation, shortened cycle, increased menstrual volume, etc.

② Elderly patients often complain of irregular vaginal bleeding after menopause

7. Symptoms of late-stage cervical cancer: Secondary symptoms appear depending on the extent of lesion invasion.

① Pain is the main symptom of advanced cervical cancer, which sometimes causes severe pain and radiates to the lower limbs.

② If the lesion affects the pelvic connective tissue, pelvic wall, compresses the ureter or rectum, sciatic nerve, urine, stool, anal swelling, constipation, urgency, lower limb swelling and pain, etc.,

③ If the disease is not controlled, it may lead to ureteral obstruction, hydronephrosis and eventually uremia. At the end of the disease, the patient may have cachexia.