Cervical Cancer's Articles Archives
Finland is the country with fewer deaths associated with this type of cancer, while Lithuania is at the opposite end
Some 33,000 women in the European Union suffer from cervical cancer, a disease that causes 15,000 deaths each year only in that territory, according to a report by the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends vaccination as a preventive measure. …read the rest of this entry»
Cervical cancer in early stages is often completely asymptomatic; reason specific gynecologic examinations should be performed for detection, such as cytology and colposcopy. The most common symptom is vaginal bleeding, which in early stages is usually less intense, red blood, unrelated to the cycle and that usually occurs after intercourse or with effort. …read the rest of this entry»
American researchers have analyzed Experts female characteristics as a woman’s age and type of treatment it receives to determine the role of abnormal cells present in the cervix in terms of cancer development. …read the rest of this entry»
One of the most common kinds of cancer that attacks young women today is the cervical cancer. The disease may be the result of the emergence of human papilloma virus, which spreads through sexual intercourse. …read the rest of this entry»
Starting sexual intercourse at an early age.
Multiple sex partners
Having a sex partner who has or has many sexual partners.
Participate in group sexual practices, or engage in high-risk relationship
There are studies that found that daughters of mothers who took diethylstilbestrol severely pregnancy are at increased risk of cancer of the uterus (this was a medication used in the 70’s to prevent abortion) …read the rest of this entry»
Worldwide the cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, has the characteristic of being a preventable cancer screening tests, which typically detect changes in cells that form the neck before the same become cancerous, there lies the importance of conducting a pap smear regularly (at least once a year).
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The incidence of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix (SCC) continues to decline among U.S. women but the same cannot be said for invasive cervical adenocarcinoma, according to researchers in the cancer epidemiology and genetics branch of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Sophia S. Wang and colleagues used the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database to calculate incidence rates for cervical carcinoma diagnosed between 1976 and 2000 by histologic subtype, race, age, and disease stage.
More than 27,000 invasive cervical carcinomas were diagnosed during that period, with 19,703 cases of SCC and 3,895 cases of adenocarcinoma.
They report in the March 1st issue of the journal Cancer that the “overall incidence of invasive SCC declined over time, and the majority of tumors that are detected currently are in situ and localized carcinomas in young women.”
The sharp increase in cases of SCC in situ noted in the early 1990s likely reflects a culmination of events including changes in nomenclature, improvements in treatment, and screening, the team reports.
Rates of adenocarcinoma in situ also increased during the study period, especially in young women, again due to better screening. However, this has not yet translated into a decrease in invasive adenocarcinoma incidence rates, according to Dr. Wang and colleagues. “There does not yet appear to be a screening effect for invasive adenocarcinoma,” they write, although “sufficient time may not have lapsed for an effect to be observed.”
Etiologic factors may explain the increasing incidence of invasive cervical adenocarcinoma in young white women, the investigators suggest, while in black women, the increase may reflect a “lack of effective screening or a differential disease etiology.”
My name is Amy. I’m 35 years old. My husband and I just recently moved to Texas. I don’t have any children as I was diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer when I was 29 years old. And I’ll go ahead and tell you about this. About a year before my husband and I wanted to begin trying to have children, I had decided to change gynecologists because I was needing to get in with a group of physicians who delivered babies. So I went in to the doctor and this was in 1994, summer of 94 and discovered or told anyway that I had some sort of a cervicitis. So for several months after that I took antibiotics and tried to get over the problems that I was having, and the antibiotics didn’t do anything for me because as it turned out, it was cancer. Finally, in November I had a culdoscopy done which is the biopsy of the cervix, where they take a cone shaped area of tissue out. That was done, that was right before Thanksgiving. Monday morning after Thanksgiving I got a phone call at my office and was told it was invasive cervical cancer. Went on and had the surgery, the very next morning and it turned out it had moved into my lymph nodes, and so along with it being a radical hysterectomy, also all of the lymph nodes were taken out and lower and upper again. …read the rest of this entry»
I was given two weeks to live when my cancer recurred in 2000 and here it is 2003. I was determined with the help of God that I would get through the toughest fight that I ever had and it was not easy after 16 related surgical procedures and a kidney removal, as well as 30 radiation treatments. I can say today that I truly am a survivor and that is my handle so to speak. Cancer survivor 1998.
My name is Tammy and at the age of 28 I was told that I have cervical cancer. I had always wanted kids and this diagnosis rocked my world. I had always gone for my annual pap smears and the doctor always told me that I had an infection but it was “nothing an antibiotic can’t take care of.” This went on for 4 years. Then the fourth year he called me and told me that I was OK. Two weeks later I was informed that I needed to see a specialist. I was in horror. …read the rest of this entry»
