Cervical Cancer Cells
Published on Feb 28 2010, in the categories: Cells
Cervical cancer cells
Unlike many other cancers, the leading cause of cervical cancer is not the bloodline of your family (heredity) .Indeed, it is still a virus that is causing this cancer. This virus is called human papilloma virus or (HPV) for short . This virus is capable of transforming normal cells of the lining of the cervix in cells abnormal. These cells may in a few cases, then become cancerous.
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There are many types of human papillomavirus. Most are harmless, but others may be more virulent and cause, for example, cancer of the cervix.
Infection with human papillomavirus or HPV is a virus that is transmitted sexually often, since seventy percent of women who have sex come into contact with the virus at one time or another in their life .
The virus is usually eliminated by the immune system, however it might escape it . When not removed, they persist within the cells of the cervix: this phenomenon is called a persistent infection.
When a woman is infected with certain type of the human papilloma virus and her body can not get rid of the infection, mutated cells can grow on the walls of the cervix.If these abnormal cells are not detected early, they can progress into cancer. In most cases, this process can take several years. However, in rarer cases, sometimes the cancer develops in a extremely short time..
It is the persistence of infectious types of the virus that are high risk may cause the alteration of the cervical cells of the uterus and their mutation into cancer cells . This process usually takes place over a period of about ten to twenty years, although in rare cases, the progression may be rapid.
The strange cellular changes occur in the cervix. In the absence of support for the most serious injuries, such changes may evolve to the stage of malignant cells.
Fortunately, the immune system of the body eliminates in most cases the infection cause by the human papiloma virus or HPV, although every woman realizes she has been infected at some point in her sexually active life.
However, some types of HPV named high risk, involved in the development of cervical cancer of the uterus, may persist at the cervix and cause, with time, development of cancer of the cervix uteri . If this occurs, there are usually no symptoms during these early stages preceding the stage of cancer cervix.
Infected cells in the cervix may gradually change to become abnormal and malignant. A process that usually takes years unless it is identified and treated as soon as possible. At these pre cancerous stages, the smears of the cervix have proved their importance in detecting early cellular changes resulting from infection with HPV and cancer is more and more often being prevented rather than cured .And that is a good thing because cervical cancer and the HPV are usually very beatable when detected early.
Unlike many other cancers, the leading cause of cervical cancer is not the bloodline of your family (heredity) .Indeed, it is still a virus that is causing this cancer. This virus is called human papilloma virus or (HPV) for short . This virus is capable of transforming normal cells of the lining of the cervix in cells abnormal. These cells may in a few cases, then become cancerous.
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There are many types of human papillomavirus. Most are harmless, but others may be more virulent and cause, for example, cancer of the cervix.
Infection with human papillomavirus or HPV is a virus that is transmitted sexually often, since seventy percent of women who have sex come into contact with the virus at one time or another in their life .
The virus is usually eliminated by the immune system, however it might escape it . When not removed, they persist within the cells of the cervix: this phenomenon is called a persistent infection.
When a woman is infected with certain type of the human papilloma virus and her body can not get rid of the infection, mutated cells can grow on the walls of the cervix.If these abnormal cells are not detected early, they can progress into cancer. In most cases, this process can take several years. However, in rarer cases, sometimes the cancer develops in a extremely short time..
It is the persistence of infectious types of the virus that are high risk may cause the alteration of the cervical cells of the uterus and their mutation into cancer cells . This process usually takes place over a period of about ten to twenty years, although in rare cases, the progression may be rapid.
The strange cellular changes occur in the cervix. In the absence of support for the most serious injuries, such changes may evolve to the stage of malignant cells.
Fortunately, the immune system of the body eliminates in most cases the infection cause by the human papiloma virus or HPV, although every woman realizes she has been infected at some point in her sexually active life.
However, some types of HPV named high risk, involved in the development of cervical cancer of the uterus, may persist at the cervix and cause, with time, development of cancer of the cervix uteri . If this occurs, there are usually no symptoms during these early stages preceding the stage of cancer cervix.
Infected cells in the cervix may gradually change to become abnormal and malignant. A process that usually takes years unless it is identified and treated as soon as possible. At these pre cancerous stages, the smears of the cervix have proved their importance in detecting early cellular changes resulting from infection with HPV and cancer is more and more often being prevented rather than cured .And that is a good thing because cervical cancer and the HPV are usually very beatable when detected early.
Is Cervical Cancer Healable
Published on Feb 28 2010, in the categories: Facts
So is cervical cancer healable?
No,it is not healable , it is treatable.You can never be sure that a pacient is going to survive but survival rates are increasing every year . The vast majority are squamous cell cancers, but the conventional rate of ninety-five percent is currently evolving, the number of glandular cancers known as (adenocarcinoma) and gradually increasing as more show delivery of cervical cancer in young women.
You should calculate your own risk of getting cervical cancer by thinking of:
The risk of cervical cancer is dependent upon:
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Early sexual activity
Multiple partners
The number of pregnancies
General discomfort ,infections
Papillomatosis also known as (rooster combs), the Human Papilloma Virus appears
important, perhaps vital, in early stages of the disease
of cervico-uterine cancer but there are other factors (cofactors) required, hormonal factors, immune, food and tobacco.
SYMPTOMS
THE FIRST SYMPTOM IS BLEEDING TO CONTACT
A small cancer can cause bleeding during sexual intercourse, this is a sign that must not be ignored ,try contacting your doctor and get a pap smear. CANCER CURES THAT have NEARLY 100% succes rate if it’s detected early on , so right now the best chance you have is early detection .
EVOLUTION
It is mostly local and regional:
Laterally in the ligaments that connect the uterus to the wall of the bony pelvic girdle. On to the bladder and back into the rectum. Like all cancers developed on the mucous membranes, cervical cancer scatters more or less rapidly in regional lymph.
DIAGNOSIS
The speculum examination usually shows the lesion and allows the biopsy. Histological examination of the biopsy specimen to determine if the patient has cancer cancer is said to be to invasive therefore likely to invade the lymph nodes. If the injury is not obvious, it must be sought using colposcopy and is sometimes invisible to the direct examination when it is above the external os. The extension of the lesion was assessed by vaginal and rectal examination; an negative effect on the urinary tract and rectum should also be sought. The Computed Tomography Scan or CTSnow allows us to have comprehensive assessment in particular the search for lymph nodes located above. MRI also provides important results.
Such a comprehensive balance can define a therapeutic strategy which depends on healing.
SCREENING
Before discussing treatment, it must focus on the medical action that could obviate the problem of strategy;
Indeed, the smear screening allows DETECTING CYTO - detect precancerous CERVICAL whose treatment prevents the development of cancer.
This is : severe dysplasia
This lesion develops in the continuity of dysplasia and precedes an almost systematically the development of invasive cancer, the real-deal cancer.
The destruction of dysplasia is the real ‘’cure’’ for cervical cancer and should be sought out as soon as possible.
SURGERY removing the uterus, its Annexes and lymph is the systematic treatment, with or without the TRANSCUTANEOUS RADIOTHERAPY be either by brachytherapy.
Each case requires a clear strategy, since the results
exceed the 80% rate of healing up to 95% for early stages. So u get a 15 percent chance of living just by being responsible and having routine pap smears.
There are some procedures that are not invasive and they can be treated by an act localized partial surgical conization of the cervix. This shows a definite interest among young women wishing to keep their chances of pregnancy.
No,it is not healable , it is treatable.You can never be sure that a pacient is going to survive but survival rates are increasing every year . The vast majority are squamous cell cancers, but the conventional rate of ninety-five percent is currently evolving, the number of glandular cancers known as (adenocarcinoma) and gradually increasing as more show delivery of cervical cancer in young women.
You should calculate your own risk of getting cervical cancer by thinking of:
The risk of cervical cancer is dependent upon:
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Early sexual activity
Multiple partners
The number of pregnancies
General discomfort ,infections
Papillomatosis also known as (rooster combs), the Human Papilloma Virus appears
important, perhaps vital, in early stages of the disease
of cervico-uterine cancer but there are other factors (cofactors) required, hormonal factors, immune, food and tobacco.
SYMPTOMS
THE FIRST SYMPTOM IS BLEEDING TO CONTACT
A small cancer can cause bleeding during sexual intercourse, this is a sign that must not be ignored ,try contacting your doctor and get a pap smear. CANCER CURES THAT have NEARLY 100% succes rate if it’s detected early on , so right now the best chance you have is early detection .
EVOLUTION
It is mostly local and regional:
Laterally in the ligaments that connect the uterus to the wall of the bony pelvic girdle. On to the bladder and back into the rectum. Like all cancers developed on the mucous membranes, cervical cancer scatters more or less rapidly in regional lymph.
DIAGNOSIS
The speculum examination usually shows the lesion and allows the biopsy. Histological examination of the biopsy specimen to determine if the patient has cancer cancer is said to be to invasive therefore likely to invade the lymph nodes. If the injury is not obvious, it must be sought using colposcopy and is sometimes invisible to the direct examination when it is above the external os. The extension of the lesion was assessed by vaginal and rectal examination; an negative effect on the urinary tract and rectum should also be sought. The Computed Tomography Scan or CTSnow allows us to have comprehensive assessment in particular the search for lymph nodes located above. MRI also provides important results.
Such a comprehensive balance can define a therapeutic strategy which depends on healing.
SCREENING
Before discussing treatment, it must focus on the medical action that could obviate the problem of strategy;
Indeed, the smear screening allows DETECTING CYTO - detect precancerous CERVICAL whose treatment prevents the development of cancer.
This is : severe dysplasia
This lesion develops in the continuity of dysplasia and precedes an almost systematically the development of invasive cancer, the real-deal cancer.
The destruction of dysplasia is the real ‘’cure’’ for cervical cancer and should be sought out as soon as possible.
SURGERY removing the uterus, its Annexes and lymph is the systematic treatment, with or without the TRANSCUTANEOUS RADIOTHERAPY be either by brachytherapy.
Each case requires a clear strategy, since the results
exceed the 80% rate of healing up to 95% for early stages. So u get a 15 percent chance of living just by being responsible and having routine pap smears.
There are some procedures that are not invasive and they can be treated by an act localized partial surgical conization of the cervix. This shows a definite interest among young women wishing to keep their chances of pregnancy.
Cervical Cancer Diagnosics
Published on Feb 27 2010, in the categories: diagnosis
The Pap smear screening of the cervix can be detected precancerous lesions or cancer beginners who have not yet caused symptoms. The detection of lesions of the cervix can significantly reduce both the incidence of cancer and mortality from these cancers. For cancer of the cervix, the benefits of regular screening are more important for breast cancer for almost 90% of deaths from cervical cancer could be prevented by regular screening. These results are confirmed by the significant decrease in the incidence of cancers of the cervix in all countries where screening of a large part of the female population has been organized. In some countries , this decrease was also observed although only 60% of women regularly participate in screening. There is a whole list of substances that can increase the risk of getting cervical cancer.
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Can we prevent its onset?
The major risk factor for cervical cancer is known: it is a type of papilloma virus (HPV). Some co-factors such as smoking increases the risk further. The virus "HPV" is transmitted sexually, so it is possible to avoid some contamination of protection (condoms). Since 2006 a vaccine against the penetration of the virus in cervical cells has been put on the market. Its effectiveness is real, but not complete because there are several types of viruses and not all are inhibited by the vaccine. Vaccination should take place before the occurrence of the infection, and before the start of sexual life.
In civilized countries, the recommendation is to reach the age of 14 years or between 14 and 23 years if the sex life has not been initiated . The human wart virus (HSV) is a collection of over 70 types of viruses that cause warts or papillomas. Although some types of HSV cause common warts on the hands and feet, genital HSV, which are sexually transmitted, causes warts in the genital and anal regions both in men than in women. Some strains of HSV are associated with increased risk of cervical cancer. What can you do to prevent this? Well the use of latex condoms or polyurethane during sex helps to reduce the risk of transmission, but it may still take place if the warts are located on body parts not covered by the condom.
Cervical Cancer Diagnosics center
Limit your number of sexual partners. But the best weapon is early detection so you should get routine pap smears. Pap smears are used to detect in women changes in the cervix that can cause cervical cancer. The smears are often during the annual gynecological exams routine. The cells collected from the cervix are fixed on slides and examined under microscope to look for abnormalities. The results of vaginal smears indicated the presence of precancerous cells. Abnormal results do not always report the precancerous changes. If people are abnormal, they must repeat smears or make additional examinations. If smears lead early detection of precancerous cells, it will do very well to the treatment. Changes precancerous cells usually do not cause symptoms. Therefore it is important to have routine Pap smears.
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Can we prevent its onset?
The major risk factor for cervical cancer is known: it is a type of papilloma virus (HPV). Some co-factors such as smoking increases the risk further. The virus "HPV" is transmitted sexually, so it is possible to avoid some contamination of protection (condoms). Since 2006 a vaccine against the penetration of the virus in cervical cells has been put on the market. Its effectiveness is real, but not complete because there are several types of viruses and not all are inhibited by the vaccine. Vaccination should take place before the occurrence of the infection, and before the start of sexual life.
In civilized countries, the recommendation is to reach the age of 14 years or between 14 and 23 years if the sex life has not been initiated . The human wart virus (HSV) is a collection of over 70 types of viruses that cause warts or papillomas. Although some types of HSV cause common warts on the hands and feet, genital HSV, which are sexually transmitted, causes warts in the genital and anal regions both in men than in women. Some strains of HSV are associated with increased risk of cervical cancer. What can you do to prevent this? Well the use of latex condoms or polyurethane during sex helps to reduce the risk of transmission, but it may still take place if the warts are located on body parts not covered by the condom.
Cervical Cancer Diagnosics center
Limit your number of sexual partners. But the best weapon is early detection so you should get routine pap smears. Pap smears are used to detect in women changes in the cervix that can cause cervical cancer. The smears are often during the annual gynecological exams routine. The cells collected from the cervix are fixed on slides and examined under microscope to look for abnormalities. The results of vaginal smears indicated the presence of precancerous cells. Abnormal results do not always report the precancerous changes. If people are abnormal, they must repeat smears or make additional examinations. If smears lead early detection of precancerous cells, it will do very well to the treatment. Changes precancerous cells usually do not cause symptoms. Therefore it is important to have routine Pap smears.
Cancer Cervical
Published on Feb 27 2010, in the categories: Facts, Stages of disease, Useful info
The pathologists can distinguish microscopically two very different cases. Between the outer cervix (ectocervix) and the inner part (endocervix), there is a junction area that is fragile area where generally begins the process of disease evolution.
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The epithelium is composed of a layer and a deep layer. These two layers are separated by a training histological called basal lamina. When the basal lamina is not affected, only epithelial cells are altered on the surface it is a squamous intraepithelial or squamous pre-invasive cancer or Stage 0 or carcinoma in situ.
When cancer cells perforated the basement membrane and invaded the connective tissue underlying it is an invasive cancer.
Contributing Factors * The vaginal and cervical infections (genital herpes HSV type 2, genital warts or HPV infections of the herpes group HPV); * The alterations of the mucosa to hormones: states dysplastic and inflammatory cervix are considered precancerous; * The number of pregnancies than 1; * The early sex; * The frequent change of partners; * Smoking; * Exposure in utero to DES (diethylstilbestrol).
Cervical cancer is possible during pregnancy. Vaccines against cancer of the cervix. Recently, two vaccines prevent infection by HPV, cause cancer of the cervix: Gardasil and Cervarix. On March 9, 2007, the Superior Council of Public Hygiene of France (CSHPF) and the Technical Committee on Immunization (CTV) recommend the widespread vaccination of young girls of 14 years against the Human Papillomavirus. The same opinion recommends vaccination also offer girls and young women 15 to 23 years who have not had sex or later in the year following the start of their sex life.
The signs of the disease - The squamous non-invasive in situ is completely silent: there are no symptoms. This discovery of a systematic review of the neck is under the annual gynecological checkup or during the medical surveillance of inflammation or cervical dysplasia (polyp, ulcer etc ...)
When cancer is talked about, the patient usually consults for blood loss (bleeding) often caused (sex, personal hygiene etc..). The leucorrhoea (white discharge) are sometimes associated painless.
Anyway cervicovaginal smears are performed, and a colposcopy, which will allow the biopsy. The speculum examination may also reveal the budding or ulcerated lesion. The Pap smear - The Pap test is a simple review. It involves removing cells from the cervix by a simple painless scraping, and to spread the levy on a slide. After fixation, the slides are examined under a microscope by a doctor who specializes in this reading, the pathologist.
It describes in his report the cells he saw and can classify the smear in classes I to V, but it is not absolutely necessary, the description of cells sufficient to separate what is normal and what is suspicious or frankly pathological.
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The epithelium is composed of a layer and a deep layer. These two layers are separated by a training histological called basal lamina. When the basal lamina is not affected, only epithelial cells are altered on the surface it is a squamous intraepithelial or squamous pre-invasive cancer or Stage 0 or carcinoma in situ.
When cancer cells perforated the basement membrane and invaded the connective tissue underlying it is an invasive cancer.
Contributing Factors * The vaginal and cervical infections (genital herpes HSV type 2, genital warts or HPV infections of the herpes group HPV); * The alterations of the mucosa to hormones: states dysplastic and inflammatory cervix are considered precancerous; * The number of pregnancies than 1; * The early sex; * The frequent change of partners; * Smoking; * Exposure in utero to DES (diethylstilbestrol).
Cervical cancer is possible during pregnancy. Vaccines against cancer of the cervix. Recently, two vaccines prevent infection by HPV, cause cancer of the cervix: Gardasil and Cervarix. On March 9, 2007, the Superior Council of Public Hygiene of France (CSHPF) and the Technical Committee on Immunization (CTV) recommend the widespread vaccination of young girls of 14 years against the Human Papillomavirus. The same opinion recommends vaccination also offer girls and young women 15 to 23 years who have not had sex or later in the year following the start of their sex life.
The signs of the disease - The squamous non-invasive in situ is completely silent: there are no symptoms. This discovery of a systematic review of the neck is under the annual gynecological checkup or during the medical surveillance of inflammation or cervical dysplasia (polyp, ulcer etc ...)
When cancer is talked about, the patient usually consults for blood loss (bleeding) often caused (sex, personal hygiene etc..). The leucorrhoea (white discharge) are sometimes associated painless.
Anyway cervicovaginal smears are performed, and a colposcopy, which will allow the biopsy. The speculum examination may also reveal the budding or ulcerated lesion. The Pap smear - The Pap test is a simple review. It involves removing cells from the cervix by a simple painless scraping, and to spread the levy on a slide. After fixation, the slides are examined under a microscope by a doctor who specializes in this reading, the pathologist.
It describes in his report the cells he saw and can classify the smear in classes I to V, but it is not absolutely necessary, the description of cells sufficient to separate what is normal and what is suspicious or frankly pathological.
Candida And Cervical Cancer
Published on Feb 23 2010, in the categories: Facts, Useful info
Candida and cervical cancer: the Candida fungus may determine cervical cancer – a new therapeutic method. At the present day, cancer is one of the most important causes which provoke death. There is a doctor, an Italian oncologist who wrote even a book “Cancer is a fungus” (it is about Candida), who promotes a new theory about this disease. The doctor’s theory sustains that the cure of cervical cancer can be very simple (without risks) and very quick (in just a few days).
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In present, the doctors offer to the people who are diagnosed with cervical cancer, 3 variants: surgery operation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy; although the success rate is extremely small. In present, the medicine is concentrating to work on the hypothesis that an important factor in the appearance of cancer is the genetic one, but the recent researches show that the genetic factor has a low role in the activation of the disease.
The doctor’s researches leaded him to the conclusion that the principal cause of the cervical cancer is an ordinary fungus called Candida. This Candida fungus exists in a natural way in the human body and it does not cause problems as long as its development doesn’t get out of control. The cancerous tumour is just the natural reaction of the organism in order to defend itself against this Candida fungus.
A lot of anterior studies had already established that there is an obvious relation between Candida and cervical cancer, but it was not known what the relation was about. It was also determined the fact that between 79% and 97% from the patients sick of cervical cancer, presented Candida infections, also. Knowing all these things, which is the solution? The doctor presents the evolution of some tumours that are washed with an ordinary solution of baking soda.
The big disadvantage in fighting Candida is the fact that the fungus is able to adapt in a few days to the attack of the medicines that we know so far. But the Candida fungus does not adapt quickly enough to the baking soda. Unfortunately it is not good enough to swallow baking soda in order to get rid of the cervical cancer, but the baking soda must be injected directly into the tumour.
The tumour’s PH changes very fast from acid to alkaline, which determines that the fungus will be destroyed before it has time to adapt to the new medium. The experiments of the doctor prove that 99% from the persons who have breast cancer and bladder cancer may cure in just 6 days, only by using a catheter which cleans the tumour with a baking soda solution. It is obvious that the financially interests from the pharmaceutical industry (which is interested in selling its products and not in the curing of sick people), determined the marginalization of the doctor and that his theory would be not known very well.
What exactly causes the fact that the Candida’s development into the organism is getting out of control and how can we find out that we have problems related to this thing? A powerful sign is the strong desire for sweets and flour-y aliments, because these are the things that Candida prefers to “eat”. It is also favored by the alcohol, coffee, lactates, yeast, most of fruits, vinegar and some vegetables. The Candida fungus secretes over 79 substances which are toxic for the human body and that is why the persons affected by this fungus are feeling weak, dizzy, anxious and without the power to concentrate.
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In present, the doctors offer to the people who are diagnosed with cervical cancer, 3 variants: surgery operation, chemotherapy and radiotherapy; although the success rate is extremely small. In present, the medicine is concentrating to work on the hypothesis that an important factor in the appearance of cancer is the genetic one, but the recent researches show that the genetic factor has a low role in the activation of the disease.
The doctor’s researches leaded him to the conclusion that the principal cause of the cervical cancer is an ordinary fungus called Candida. This Candida fungus exists in a natural way in the human body and it does not cause problems as long as its development doesn’t get out of control. The cancerous tumour is just the natural reaction of the organism in order to defend itself against this Candida fungus.
A lot of anterior studies had already established that there is an obvious relation between Candida and cervical cancer, but it was not known what the relation was about. It was also determined the fact that between 79% and 97% from the patients sick of cervical cancer, presented Candida infections, also. Knowing all these things, which is the solution? The doctor presents the evolution of some tumours that are washed with an ordinary solution of baking soda.
The big disadvantage in fighting Candida is the fact that the fungus is able to adapt in a few days to the attack of the medicines that we know so far. But the Candida fungus does not adapt quickly enough to the baking soda. Unfortunately it is not good enough to swallow baking soda in order to get rid of the cervical cancer, but the baking soda must be injected directly into the tumour.
The tumour’s PH changes very fast from acid to alkaline, which determines that the fungus will be destroyed before it has time to adapt to the new medium. The experiments of the doctor prove that 99% from the persons who have breast cancer and bladder cancer may cure in just 6 days, only by using a catheter which cleans the tumour with a baking soda solution. It is obvious that the financially interests from the pharmaceutical industry (which is interested in selling its products and not in the curing of sick people), determined the marginalization of the doctor and that his theory would be not known very well.
What exactly causes the fact that the Candida’s development into the organism is getting out of control and how can we find out that we have problems related to this thing? A powerful sign is the strong desire for sweets and flour-y aliments, because these are the things that Candida prefers to “eat”. It is also favored by the alcohol, coffee, lactates, yeast, most of fruits, vinegar and some vegetables. The Candida fungus secretes over 79 substances which are toxic for the human body and that is why the persons affected by this fungus are feeling weak, dizzy, anxious and without the power to concentrate.
Chemo And Cervical Cancer
Published on Feb 13 2010, in the categories: Treatments and side effects
Cervical cancer treatment has many types and it usually includes more therapeutic methods, depending on the clinical stage of the sickness. The treatment methods are the following: surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonotherapy, biologic therapy and genetic therapy (it is yet in study).
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These therapeutically methods can be associated with one another in order to obtain the best therapeutic result possible. The purpose of the oncologic therapy can be the recovery (curability), the staging of the sickness, continuation of the survival, the continuation of the free interval of sickness or palliation (adjustment of semeiology and improvement of the life’s quality). The therapeutically course is established by the commission of therapeutic decision composed by an oncologist, chemotherapy doctor, radiotherapy doctor, a psychologist and a pathologist.
Choosing the specific treatment is made dependent on the localization of the sickness, the clinical stage, the factors of prognostic, the clinical situation of the patient, the age of the patient, the presence of other sicknesses associated and the patient’s option. The patient must receive all the information about each treatment, the benefits of it, the side effects and not lastly the risks that the patient will assume in case that he/she refuses the recommended treatment.
The oncology treatment includes local and systematic therapy. The local treatment actions over the primary tumor and it involves surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immuno-therapy. The systematic treatment actions over the primary tumor and over the disseminated cells from the primary tumor to other tissues/organs of the organism. The systematic treatment may involve chemotherapy, hormono-therapy, chemotherapy and cervical cancer – chemotherapy represents the treatment method, which uses citotoxic medicines in order to destroy the malign cells. It is administrated intravenously (the most frequently), on the oral way, intra-arterial, intra-toumoral or intramuscular.
Chemotherapy can be curative (represents the principal modality of treatment), neoadjuvant or pre-operatorial (they have the role to reduce the primary tumour, to improve the loco-regional control of the sickness and to decrease the risk of distance dissemination of the cancer in the case of the patients with un-advantageous prognostic), palliative (has the purpose to improve the life’s quality, reduces the semiology).
Chemotherapy and cervical cancer – chemotherapy is administrated, normally in series/cures of 1 day, 2 days, 3 days or 5 days (there are more complex series, also), each period of the treatment is followed by a period of recovery (3-4 weeks). There can be used more cytostatics, depending on: localization, hysto-pathological form, clinical stage, the sicknesses associated with the cancer and the option of the doctor.
Side effects of the cytostatics are many, with different grades of severity, temporary or permanent. The secondary effects depend on the cytostatic, on the doses administrated and on the period of the treatment. The most frequent side effects of the cytostatics are: physical asthenia, lost of the alimentary appetite, alopecia (hair lost), nausea and eructation, high risk of infections (by decreasing of the leucocyte’s number), different bleedings (by decreasing the number of the thrombocytes), disorders of the intestinal transit (diarrhea or constipation), anemia, mucositis and allergic reactions. Most of the side effects can be ameliorated by specific treatments and they usually disappear after the chemotherapy ends.
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These therapeutically methods can be associated with one another in order to obtain the best therapeutic result possible. The purpose of the oncologic therapy can be the recovery (curability), the staging of the sickness, continuation of the survival, the continuation of the free interval of sickness or palliation (adjustment of semeiology and improvement of the life’s quality). The therapeutically course is established by the commission of therapeutic decision composed by an oncologist, chemotherapy doctor, radiotherapy doctor, a psychologist and a pathologist.
Choosing the specific treatment is made dependent on the localization of the sickness, the clinical stage, the factors of prognostic, the clinical situation of the patient, the age of the patient, the presence of other sicknesses associated and the patient’s option. The patient must receive all the information about each treatment, the benefits of it, the side effects and not lastly the risks that the patient will assume in case that he/she refuses the recommended treatment.
The oncology treatment includes local and systematic therapy. The local treatment actions over the primary tumor and it involves surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immuno-therapy. The systematic treatment actions over the primary tumor and over the disseminated cells from the primary tumor to other tissues/organs of the organism. The systematic treatment may involve chemotherapy, hormono-therapy, chemotherapy and cervical cancer – chemotherapy represents the treatment method, which uses citotoxic medicines in order to destroy the malign cells. It is administrated intravenously (the most frequently), on the oral way, intra-arterial, intra-toumoral or intramuscular.
Chemotherapy can be curative (represents the principal modality of treatment), neoadjuvant or pre-operatorial (they have the role to reduce the primary tumour, to improve the loco-regional control of the sickness and to decrease the risk of distance dissemination of the cancer in the case of the patients with un-advantageous prognostic), palliative (has the purpose to improve the life’s quality, reduces the semiology).
Chemotherapy and cervical cancer – chemotherapy is administrated, normally in series/cures of 1 day, 2 days, 3 days or 5 days (there are more complex series, also), each period of the treatment is followed by a period of recovery (3-4 weeks). There can be used more cytostatics, depending on: localization, hysto-pathological form, clinical stage, the sicknesses associated with the cancer and the option of the doctor.
Side effects of the cytostatics are many, with different grades of severity, temporary or permanent. The secondary effects depend on the cytostatic, on the doses administrated and on the period of the treatment. The most frequent side effects of the cytostatics are: physical asthenia, lost of the alimentary appetite, alopecia (hair lost), nausea and eructation, high risk of infections (by decreasing of the leucocyte’s number), different bleedings (by decreasing the number of the thrombocytes), disorders of the intestinal transit (diarrhea or constipation), anemia, mucositis and allergic reactions. Most of the side effects can be ameliorated by specific treatments and they usually disappear after the chemotherapy ends.
Stage 4 Cervical Cancer
Published on Feb 10 2010, in the categories: Stages of disease
Cervical cancer is a chronic sickness very grave which does not affect only the health of q women, but affects her social life, too. It is the form of the cancer that appears most frequently at woman, after the breast cancer. As in the case of the most forms of cancer, it is about a carcinoma (meaning a tumour which develops beginning with the covering tissue called epithelium).
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The uterine tube is a part of the uterus which makes the connection between the uterine body and the vagina. If it is let to reach advanced stadiums, the cervical cancer evolves very quickly. The epidermoid carcinoma (the most frequent form) has the origin, usually, at the cylinder-squamous junction (also called the transformation zone) of the uterine tube. It is usually associated with lesions of dysplasia and of carcinoma in situ, demonstrating the progression of these lesions to invasive cancer, which may last between 10 and 20 years.
The lesions are small at the beginning and their diagnostic and correct treatment lead to the healing of the sickness. If the invasion progresses at the level of the cervix, the growing of the tumour is clinical evidenced by the appearance of a superficial ulceration or the appearance of an exofitic tumour which predominates into the vagina. There are invaded step by step the vagina, and in advanced stadiums even the urinary bladder and/or the rectum.
Because of the rich lymphatic network that uterus has, it can precociously appear metastases (secondary tumours which have the origin into the primary tumour at the level of the cervix) into the lomboaortic or into the lymphatic pelvic ganglions. Hematogena dissemination (in other organs) is less frequent, but relative common in the advanced stages. Metastases appear at the level of the lungs, of the lymphatic mediastinal and supraclavicular ganglions, of the bones and the liver.
After the cancer’s diagnostic, there are effectuated some medical investigations in order to find out if the cancerous cells are spread into the cervix or into other parts of the body. The method through which it is studied the invasion of the cancerous cells is called staging. Information obtain by the process of staging is used in establishing the stadium of the sickness. It is very important to know the stage of the cancer in order to plan the correct treatment.
Cervical cancer has 4 stages: stage 1 (involves the sicknesses which are limited by the uterus and have the best prognostic), stages 2 and 3 involve the tumors extended into the pelvis, outside the uterus and stage 4 cervical cancer involves the cancers which invade the urinary bladder or the rectum and the ones with metastases at distance.
Stage 4 cervical cancer represents the case when the tumour invades the urinary bladder and other parts of the human body. This stage is divided in two sub-stages dependant on the localization of the cancerous cells: stage IV-A and stage IV-B. During the stage IV-A the cancer is spread into the urinary bladder or the rectum’s wall or to the lymphatic nodules of the pelvis. During the stage IV-B the tumour is spread outside the pelvis and the lymphatic nodules from the pelvis to other components of the organism, such as the liver, intestinal tract, lungs or abdomen.
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The uterine tube is a part of the uterus which makes the connection between the uterine body and the vagina. If it is let to reach advanced stadiums, the cervical cancer evolves very quickly. The epidermoid carcinoma (the most frequent form) has the origin, usually, at the cylinder-squamous junction (also called the transformation zone) of the uterine tube. It is usually associated with lesions of dysplasia and of carcinoma in situ, demonstrating the progression of these lesions to invasive cancer, which may last between 10 and 20 years.
The lesions are small at the beginning and their diagnostic and correct treatment lead to the healing of the sickness. If the invasion progresses at the level of the cervix, the growing of the tumour is clinical evidenced by the appearance of a superficial ulceration or the appearance of an exofitic tumour which predominates into the vagina. There are invaded step by step the vagina, and in advanced stadiums even the urinary bladder and/or the rectum.
Because of the rich lymphatic network that uterus has, it can precociously appear metastases (secondary tumours which have the origin into the primary tumour at the level of the cervix) into the lomboaortic or into the lymphatic pelvic ganglions. Hematogena dissemination (in other organs) is less frequent, but relative common in the advanced stages. Metastases appear at the level of the lungs, of the lymphatic mediastinal and supraclavicular ganglions, of the bones and the liver.
After the cancer’s diagnostic, there are effectuated some medical investigations in order to find out if the cancerous cells are spread into the cervix or into other parts of the body. The method through which it is studied the invasion of the cancerous cells is called staging. Information obtain by the process of staging is used in establishing the stadium of the sickness. It is very important to know the stage of the cancer in order to plan the correct treatment.
Cervical cancer has 4 stages: stage 1 (involves the sicknesses which are limited by the uterus and have the best prognostic), stages 2 and 3 involve the tumors extended into the pelvis, outside the uterus and stage 4 cervical cancer involves the cancers which invade the urinary bladder or the rectum and the ones with metastases at distance.
Stage 4 cervical cancer represents the case when the tumour invades the urinary bladder and other parts of the human body. This stage is divided in two sub-stages dependant on the localization of the cancerous cells: stage IV-A and stage IV-B. During the stage IV-A the cancer is spread into the urinary bladder or the rectum’s wall or to the lymphatic nodules of the pelvis. During the stage IV-B the tumour is spread outside the pelvis and the lymphatic nodules from the pelvis to other components of the organism, such as the liver, intestinal tract, lungs or abdomen.
Cervical Cancer Causes
Published on Feb 02 2010, in the categories: Uncategorized
Cancers are caused by the exposing to viruses, natural or chemical substances and radiations. All these factors have as effect the inducing of mutations or inadequate manifestations of different genes called “oncogene”, which are involved in the cell’s proliferation, in their differentiation and in the adjustment of these phenomena. The oncogenes are normally under the control of the inhibitor genes, of the anti-oncogenes which can be lost or can suffer their-selves a mutation under the action of these agents of risk (in this case their activity is reduced). But these anti-oncogenes can miss in a hereditary way, a fact which explains, in a great measure, the existence of familial predisposition to cancers.
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How does the cervical cancer appear?
The cervical cancer is provoked by cellular anomalies which appear at the level of the uterine tube. At the beginning, the cellular excrescences happen at the level of the cervix, and this occurs because that the zone is accessible to some cyclic constant modifications, dependant on the term. Within this physiological process, there are chances that the cells resulted this way could suffer mutations, encouraging this way the appearance of the cells which are abnormally developed.
What are the cervical cancer causes?
Cervical cancer has many possible causes, such as:
- the treatment with medicines which contain diethylstilbestrol; the cancerous role of the hormones was discovered after the appearance of cervical cancer to little girls born by women who got diethylstilbestrol (estrogen) in the first three months of pregnancy.
- besides the hormones, the medicines that induce a rise of cancer risk are the immunosuppressive medicines, anti-cancerous medicines and the arsenic derivatives.
- administration of oral contraceptives (this thing depends on the doses taken and on the time period of administration).
- the familial predisposition. The members of a family where a person is affected by cervical cancer, present a risk (to be infected by the same cancer) twice or four times bigger than others families (where all the members are healthy). This raise of risk is, yet little and it can be probably explained by a mechanism which depends on more genes, dragging along a predisposition (there are added the risks from the environmental factors).
- chronic infection with Chlamydia, which is a type of intracellular bacteria and it has bacterial characteristics (synthetizes AND – deoxyribonucleic acid and RNA – ribonucleic acid, presents cellular wall, it is reproduced by cellular division, it is sensitive to antibiotics like cyclins) and characteristics of a virus (the energy needed by its own metabolism is given by host cells).
- infection with retroviruses HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS) and HTLV – Human T-lymphotropic virus (leukemia); these retroviruses seem to have an oncogenical potentiality.
Another cervical cancer causes can be smoking and multiple pregnancies.
The most important risk factor is the infection with HPV (Human Papilloma Virus). This virus increases a lot the appearance of cancer. There are identified over 80 stems of HPV, from which type 16 and 18 are responsible of cervical cancer’s appearance in proportion of 70%. Scientific studies show that not all the women who are infected by this virus are suffering by cervical cancer.
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How does the cervical cancer appear?
The cervical cancer is provoked by cellular anomalies which appear at the level of the uterine tube. At the beginning, the cellular excrescences happen at the level of the cervix, and this occurs because that the zone is accessible to some cyclic constant modifications, dependant on the term. Within this physiological process, there are chances that the cells resulted this way could suffer mutations, encouraging this way the appearance of the cells which are abnormally developed.
What are the cervical cancer causes?
Cervical cancer has many possible causes, such as:
- the treatment with medicines which contain diethylstilbestrol; the cancerous role of the hormones was discovered after the appearance of cervical cancer to little girls born by women who got diethylstilbestrol (estrogen) in the first three months of pregnancy.
- besides the hormones, the medicines that induce a rise of cancer risk are the immunosuppressive medicines, anti-cancerous medicines and the arsenic derivatives.
- administration of oral contraceptives (this thing depends on the doses taken and on the time period of administration).
- the familial predisposition. The members of a family where a person is affected by cervical cancer, present a risk (to be infected by the same cancer) twice or four times bigger than others families (where all the members are healthy). This raise of risk is, yet little and it can be probably explained by a mechanism which depends on more genes, dragging along a predisposition (there are added the risks from the environmental factors).
- chronic infection with Chlamydia, which is a type of intracellular bacteria and it has bacterial characteristics (synthetizes AND – deoxyribonucleic acid and RNA – ribonucleic acid, presents cellular wall, it is reproduced by cellular division, it is sensitive to antibiotics like cyclins) and characteristics of a virus (the energy needed by its own metabolism is given by host cells).
- infection with retroviruses HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus (AIDS) and HTLV – Human T-lymphotropic virus (leukemia); these retroviruses seem to have an oncogenical potentiality.
Another cervical cancer causes can be smoking and multiple pregnancies.
The most important risk factor is the infection with HPV (Human Papilloma Virus). This virus increases a lot the appearance of cancer. There are identified over 80 stems of HPV, from which type 16 and 18 are responsible of cervical cancer’s appearance in proportion of 70%. Scientific studies show that not all the women who are infected by this virus are suffering by cervical cancer.
Cervical Cancer Stage III
Published on Feb 01 2010, in the categories: Uncategorized
Cervical cancer histopathological confirmed is divided in stages. Cervical cancer staging represents the group assignment of situations that have the same severity, the same prognostic and similar treatment.
The IFGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) staging system is based more on clinical examination than intra-operator examination. This staging allows the use of the following diagnostic tests: a compelling clinical examination, which includes inspection, palpation, colposcopy, hysteroscopy, cystoscopy, proctoscopy, pulmonary radiography, skeleton radiography; colposcopic biopsy of the uterine tube; conization; histology (microscopically examination of the biopsy piece); optional tests, effectuated by case: echography, computer tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, lymphangiography, laparoscopy, needle aspiration.
Cancer of the uterine tube (cervical cancer) is staged conforming to TNM (tumour, lymphatic nodules, metastasis) staging system, which is the same as IFGO staging system.
Stage I covers the diseases which are limited to the uterus (and have the best prognostic), stage II and III cover the tumours which are extended into the pelvis, outside the uterus and stage IV includes the cancers which invade the urinary bladder or the rectum and those which have metastasis at distance.
During the cervical cancer stage III the pains become more persistent and violent, the bleedings are intensified and anemia appears, too. In this case, the tumour takes possession of the whole vagina.
Cervical cancer stage III is divided into two categories: stage III-A and stage III-B. In the case of stage III-A the cervical cancer infests the third part of the inferior vagina, but it does not reach the tissues of the pelvis. If we are dealing with stage III-B of the cervical cancer we can speak about the malign cells which are diffused into the tissue of the pelvis and, sometimes, the cancerous formation gets as big as it can block the ducts which make the connection between urinary bladder and the kidneys. If the blocking happens, it can lead to the growing of the kidney or it may even lead to the interruption of kidney’s activity. It can also take place the fact that the malign cells infest the lymphatic nodules which are inside of the pelvis.
In the missing of a proper treatment the cervical cancer can be extended to vagina’s level and after that, can reach the tissues around the uterus. The lymphatic ganglia and the rest of pelvic organs are affected along the tumour’s progression. In the advanced stadium of the disease (along with the appearance of metastasis at distance) can appear the renal affection, the intestinal and pulmonary infection and the infestation of the liver.
A good treatment for cervical cancer stage III is chemotherapy (it can be administrated in the same time with radiotherapy and it is called chemo-radiotherapy). This method makes better the survival rate in stage III without provoking any major secondary effects.
For the cases which are surgical treated, the information obtained from the pathologist after the surgery can be used in establishing the separated pathological stages, which cannot replace the initial clinical staging (the one made before the surgery).
Herbal Medicine For Cervical Cancer
Published on Feb 01 2010, in the categories: Uncategorized
Cervical cancer is a malign tumour with a high level frequency that infests women, no matter how old they are. It is evaluated that 30% of cancers which affect female gander are localized at the genital organ level. Recent statistics show that, on global plan, cancer is extending with 500.000 women by year, from which 250.000 lose their life.
For internal use, the most frequent herbal medicine for cervical cancer contains:
- infusion of toad pipe (2 spoons of fresh and powdered flowers for 500 ml boiled water); it is covered infused 20 minutes, filtered and drank the whole quantity of warm tea divided in 4-5 rounds per day.
- infusion of a scoop of powdered, dried and pulverized horse tail for 200 ml of boiled water, it is let to infuse 20 minutes and after the filtering you should drink 2 cans a day, one in the morning and the other one in the evening.
- infusion of two scoops of black poplar sprouts for 200 ml of boiled water; is it let 15 minutes to infuse , you filter it and drink 2 or 3 cans a day, having a secretion similar with bee’s propolis.
- decoction of one scoop of comfrey roots for 250 ml of cold water; you boil it 20-30 minutes, it is let to infuse 15 minutes, it is filtered and drank in proportion of 4 cans a day, having the role of stopping the growing of tumours.
- infusion of admixture of equal parts from English marigold, Geranium robertianum, comfrey and meadow clover, which has good results on the women who made radiotherapy.
- infusion of admixture of 40 grams of toad pipe, English marigold flowers, fresh nettle leafs and Alchemilla vulgaris herba; it is taken one scoop of admixture for 250 ml of boiled water, it is let 5 minutes to infused covered, it is filtered and you have to consume 3 cans a day and you can add a scoop of Swedish bitter or 4-5 drops of shamrock juice.
- infusion of admixture of equal parts from English marigold, Alchemilla vulgaris, toad pipe, Geranium robertianum, shepherd’s purse and Angelica; it is used one scoop for 200 ml of boiled water, after 5 minutes of infusion it is filtered and you have to drink 3 cans a day and add 1-2 scoops of Swedish bitter to one can; in an other receipt the shepherd’s purse and the Angelica can be replaced with comfrey and fresh nettle.
- infusion of admixture of equal parts from English marigold, Alchemilla vulgaris, black poplar sprouts, toad pipe, bedstraws, shepherd’s purse, black current; you may drink 2-3 cans a day.
- maceration extract from raspberry and black current; the treatment lasts 3 months (100 drops per day), you take a break of 2-3 weeks and after that you can continue the same treatment.
Fitotherapeutical treatments have the role of lengthen the life by refreshing the imunitary system and stimulation of fight reactions against the disease. Herbal medicine for cervical cancer is like an operation without bistoury; even if it provokes intermediary disturbances, the herbal preparations eliminate the sectioning of some main stems and also the danger of septicemia and intestinal occlusion.
For internal use, the most frequent herbal medicine for cervical cancer contains:
- infusion of toad pipe (2 spoons of fresh and powdered flowers for 500 ml boiled water); it is covered infused 20 minutes, filtered and drank the whole quantity of warm tea divided in 4-5 rounds per day.
- infusion of a scoop of powdered, dried and pulverized horse tail for 200 ml of boiled water, it is let to infuse 20 minutes and after the filtering you should drink 2 cans a day, one in the morning and the other one in the evening.
- infusion of two scoops of black poplar sprouts for 200 ml of boiled water; is it let 15 minutes to infuse , you filter it and drink 2 or 3 cans a day, having a secretion similar with bee’s propolis.
- decoction of one scoop of comfrey roots for 250 ml of cold water; you boil it 20-30 minutes, it is let to infuse 15 minutes, it is filtered and drank in proportion of 4 cans a day, having the role of stopping the growing of tumours.
- infusion of admixture of equal parts from English marigold, Geranium robertianum, comfrey and meadow clover, which has good results on the women who made radiotherapy.
- infusion of admixture of 40 grams of toad pipe, English marigold flowers, fresh nettle leafs and Alchemilla vulgaris herba; it is taken one scoop of admixture for 250 ml of boiled water, it is let 5 minutes to infused covered, it is filtered and you have to consume 3 cans a day and you can add a scoop of Swedish bitter or 4-5 drops of shamrock juice.
- infusion of admixture of equal parts from English marigold, Alchemilla vulgaris, toad pipe, Geranium robertianum, shepherd’s purse and Angelica; it is used one scoop for 200 ml of boiled water, after 5 minutes of infusion it is filtered and you have to drink 3 cans a day and add 1-2 scoops of Swedish bitter to one can; in an other receipt the shepherd’s purse and the Angelica can be replaced with comfrey and fresh nettle.
- infusion of admixture of equal parts from English marigold, Alchemilla vulgaris, black poplar sprouts, toad pipe, bedstraws, shepherd’s purse, black current; you may drink 2-3 cans a day.
- maceration extract from raspberry and black current; the treatment lasts 3 months (100 drops per day), you take a break of 2-3 weeks and after that you can continue the same treatment.
Fitotherapeutical treatments have the role of lengthen the life by refreshing the imunitary system and stimulation of fight reactions against the disease. Herbal medicine for cervical cancer is like an operation without bistoury; even if it provokes intermediary disturbances, the herbal preparations eliminate the sectioning of some main stems and also the danger of septicemia and intestinal occlusion.
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