Is uterine cancer easily misdiagnosed?

Because cervical cancer is confined to the cervix in the early stage and has not yet spread to other surrounding tissues, patients often have no symptoms. Therefore, patients are likely to discover it in the early stage or ignore it, thinking it is other gynecological diseases. As the cervical cancer progresses, patients will have various obvious symptoms, and the chance of cure becomes slim when it develops to the late stage. Therefore, female friends should seriously understand the early symptoms of cervical cancer, carefully distinguish the symptoms and detect it early, so as to increase the chance of cure.

1. Early symptoms of cervical cancer are often a small amount of bleeding after sexual intercourse or irregular menstruation or vaginal bleeding after menopause. Gynecological examination at this time will find that the surface of the cervix is ​​smooth or eroded, hard, and easy to bleed. Cauliflower-like cervical cancer bleeding occurs earlier and the amount of bleeding is larger.

2. Increased vaginal discharge, which is white, thin, watery, rice-water-like or bloody, with a fishy odor. When cancerous tissue ruptures and becomes infected, the discharge may be purulent and have a foul odor.

3. As the disease progresses and the tumor gradually grows, the patient will have more vaginal discharge. If the cancerous tissue is necrotic or infected, more foul-smelling vaginal discharge mixed with blood will be discharged.

Until cervical cancer develops to the late stage, symptoms include increased bleeding, and even fatal massive bleeding due to erosion of larger blood vessels. The local tumor may appear cauliflower-like, nodular, or ulcerative, and when the tumor necrotizes and falls off, it becomes hollow.