Get Acknowledge With Cancer Cervix
Women nowadays have more and more concern about their intimate or their vital. Beauty is not directly appears from the pretty face and beautiful hair, beauty is also about the hygiene.
Before the deathly enemy for women, breast cancer; Cervix Cancer is also the warning disease for women to be acknowledge. Sixty years ago cancer of the cervix was the leading cause of cancer deaths in women in this country, surpassing even those from breast cancer. The death rate began to fall in the 1940’s and has continued to fall, in spite of the sexual revolution, third world immigration and the prevalence of HPV. The reason for this large decrease is unknown. Moreover, Cervical cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths in women in many third world countries.
The cervix is the part of the uterus connected to the upper vagina. It is the structure that dilates during childbirth to allow the baby to traverse the birth canal
The cause of cervical cancer is unknown. There is a strong association with certain subtypes of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) for the squamous cell cancers. HPV can be transmitted sexually, so there is an association with sexual activity. The strongest association, however, is that women who have been celibate all their lives almost never develop a squamous cell cancer of the cervix.
All sexually active women are at risk for the development of cervical cancer. The risk seems to be increased with smoking and promiscuity of the woman or her male partner.
Generally, there may be no symptoms of a very early cervical cancer, but by the time it is large enough to detect visually it is usually symptomatic with abnormal bleeding. Often this abnormal bleeding occurs after sexual intercourse. Cancers must make new blood vessels as they grow. These new blood vessels are often abnormal and break easily, which is why, on next on bleeding is a sign of cancer.
Cervical cancers usually do not spread early. They tend to be slow growing and cause most of their problems in the pelvis. Although distant metastases occur they are usually late events, Cervical cancers can spread by way of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic vessels drain from the cervix to clusters of lymph glands along the pelvic wall.
There are two main types of cervical cancer:
- The most common is called squamous cell carcinoma, this develops from the flat cells which cover the outer surface of the cervix at the top of the vagina.
- The other type is called adenocarcinoma, this type develops from the glandular cells which line the cervical canal (endocervix). As adenocarcinoma starts in the cervical canal it can be more difficult to detect with cervical screening tests.
- The other less common types of cancer of the cervix known as adenosquamous carcinoma, clear-cell and small-cell carcinomas.
In general, cervix are treated with radiation. the Radiation therapy usually requires a treatment each day, five days a week, for about five weeks. Each treatment takes only several minutes. This is called external or tele-therapy.
Cancer surgery also requires that the cancer be removed with as good a margin of uninvolved tissue as can safely be taken. The radical hysterectomy technique removes all the supporting ligaments to the cervix, which means that the dissection is very close to the bladder and to the rectum.
Often when cancer of the cervix is being treated with radiation, chemotherapy is also given to increase the effects of the radiation. Otherwise, chemotherapy is not used as initial treatment for cancer of the cervix. There are some investigational studies in which chemotherapy is given first and then either surgery or radiation performed.
There might be more ways to treat this cervix cancer in the future. Yet, the best way to prevent the decease is keep awake with our life, more concern about our sexual activities and our vital.