Cervical Cancer And Symptom
Published on Apr 16 2010, in the categories: Useful info, tests
The cervical cancer is the disease characterized by many abnormal cells that grow in the cervix and create tumors. This disease also affects the female reproductive system. The cervix cancer cells are at the beginning thin, flat and squamous localized on the surface of the ectocervix. 90% of cervix cancer cells are squamous cell carcinomas.
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A recent study shows that the cervical cancer is the most common cancer that affects the American women with ages between 35-54, and more than this the cervical cancer is the first from three type of cancer that affects the female reproductive. The risk factors and causes of the cervical cancer are most related to the human papilloma virus considered to be in approximately 90% of the cases responsible for causing this disease.
So, the causes of the cervical cancer are:
-excessive smoking and drugs;
-starting the sexual experience start in early age;
-multiple sex partners in the women’s life;
-sexual intercourse with a partner who had sexual intercourse with a woman that has cervical cancer;
-taking more than 5 years in a row contraceptive pills.
Like in many other cancer cases the symptoms may pass without being taken into consideration, or the symptoms don’t appear until the cancer advances to an advanced, dangerous stage.
The most frequent symptoms of the cervical cancer are:
-atypical vaginal discharge;
-light vaginal bleeding or vaginal discharge with blood spots;
-pelvic pain not associated with menstruation;
-frequency urination and pain;
-bleeding after a sexual intercourse and between menstrual periods.
The first step that women have to do when they experience any of those symptoms is to go to the doctor and explain him the symptoms. The doctor will summit her to the Pap smear test. The Pap smear test will detect the presents of any unhealthy cells that may exist in your cervix and that may lead to cervical cancer.
Doctors advise us to take at least once a year the Pap smear test, to have protected intercourse (the condom protects the woman from contraception and from any STDs, the human papilloma virus is a STDs), to limit the number of the sexual partners, to start the sexual experience after the age of 18, to take the HPV vaccine and to limit smoking, or even better to stop smoking. If the cervical cancer is diagnosed in the pre-invasive stage raises the range of survival. After the diagnosis the patient is fully examined, he will examine the medical history of the patient and will evaluate the symptoms and the risk factors of the cervical cancer. Sometimes the specialist doctors in diseases of women’s reproductive and sexual organs take a sample of the cervical tissue, a biopsy witch is examined by a physician specialized in diagnosing diseases under a microscope to evaluate the stage of the cervical cancer. The cervical cancer needs special medical treatment witch usually has though effects on the body. Under no circumstance is advisable the self-treatment at home. In time the cancer spreads through tissues, blood and lymph and may affect any organs and systems.
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A recent study shows that the cervical cancer is the most common cancer that affects the American women with ages between 35-54, and more than this the cervical cancer is the first from three type of cancer that affects the female reproductive. The risk factors and causes of the cervical cancer are most related to the human papilloma virus considered to be in approximately 90% of the cases responsible for causing this disease.
So, the causes of the cervical cancer are:
-excessive smoking and drugs;
-starting the sexual experience start in early age;
-multiple sex partners in the women’s life;
-sexual intercourse with a partner who had sexual intercourse with a woman that has cervical cancer;
-taking more than 5 years in a row contraceptive pills.
Like in many other cancer cases the symptoms may pass without being taken into consideration, or the symptoms don’t appear until the cancer advances to an advanced, dangerous stage.
The most frequent symptoms of the cervical cancer are:
-atypical vaginal discharge;
-light vaginal bleeding or vaginal discharge with blood spots;
-pelvic pain not associated with menstruation;
-frequency urination and pain;
-bleeding after a sexual intercourse and between menstrual periods.
The first step that women have to do when they experience any of those symptoms is to go to the doctor and explain him the symptoms. The doctor will summit her to the Pap smear test. The Pap smear test will detect the presents of any unhealthy cells that may exist in your cervix and that may lead to cervical cancer.
Doctors advise us to take at least once a year the Pap smear test, to have protected intercourse (the condom protects the woman from contraception and from any STDs, the human papilloma virus is a STDs), to limit the number of the sexual partners, to start the sexual experience after the age of 18, to take the HPV vaccine and to limit smoking, or even better to stop smoking. If the cervical cancer is diagnosed in the pre-invasive stage raises the range of survival. After the diagnosis the patient is fully examined, he will examine the medical history of the patient and will evaluate the symptoms and the risk factors of the cervical cancer. Sometimes the specialist doctors in diseases of women’s reproductive and sexual organs take a sample of the cervical tissue, a biopsy witch is examined by a physician specialized in diagnosing diseases under a microscope to evaluate the stage of the cervical cancer. The cervical cancer needs special medical treatment witch usually has though effects on the body. Under no circumstance is advisable the self-treatment at home. In time the cancer spreads through tissues, blood and lymph and may affect any organs and systems.
Screening For Cervical Cancers
Published on Mar 13 2010, in the categories: Facts, Useful info, diagnosis, tests
Smears: first weapon against cancer of the cervix ; The cervical cancer remains a global health problem. But the smear screening has reduced mortality by 70% in industrialized countries. And considering that nearly 90% of deaths could be prevented by better screening.
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The smear of the cervix can simultaneously reduce the number of cancer and reduce its severity. Because they detect either precancerous lesions or cancer at the initial stages it would be impossible to diagnose with other technical developments such as cancer cause no symptoms.
For an effective screening - For screening to be effective, however a condition is necessary: the regularity. You need to smear every 3 years after two normal tests conducted one year apart. At what age? It is recommended to start between 20 to 25 years to 70 years and over, until you have a sex life.
Other recommendations are important for the smear can be achieved under good conditions.This must be done away from sex (at least 48 hours after) and without menstrual periods. The occurrence of infection or limitation of local therapy also requires to postpone consideration until later. Finally, if you are menopausal, your doctor may prescribe an examination before estrogen treatment.
An easy consideration - The technique is simple: the doctor removes some cells from the cervix during your pelvic exam and spread on a slide. This allows a doctor to examine cytopathologist. Today, research has established a link between a virus, HPV or HPV and the occurrence of cervical cancer. Thus, some call for a strengthening of smear screening tests to detect these viruses.
While its use remains the subject of much debate, the test for HPV will be reimbursed by Social Security since February 14, 2004 under the following single statement: equivocal smears of undetermined significance (ASCUS). The reimbursement will be based on the rating B180, which corresponds to 48.60 euros.
The only test available on the market marketed by Digene laboratory will allow the practitioner to sort out the misunderstanding when smear cytology only allows dubious interpretation. A single reimbursement per patient is predicted even if the repetition of this examination may be justified in cases of positivity of the first positive test or in immuno-compromised patients.
If a first mark some smear abnormalities, especially do not worry. In most cases this injury completely benign or cancer in very preliminary stages. After the biopsy, the doctor will choose the appropriate treatment for you or, in the case of a mild or severe dysplasia, close monitoring, a vaporization of the lesion, excision (or removal) of part of the neck where injury or, in rare cases, a more extensive surgery or radiotherapy. But in any case, regular monitoring will be imposed later, at least during the early years.
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The smear of the cervix can simultaneously reduce the number of cancer and reduce its severity. Because they detect either precancerous lesions or cancer at the initial stages it would be impossible to diagnose with other technical developments such as cancer cause no symptoms.
For an effective screening - For screening to be effective, however a condition is necessary: the regularity. You need to smear every 3 years after two normal tests conducted one year apart. At what age? It is recommended to start between 20 to 25 years to 70 years and over, until you have a sex life.
Other recommendations are important for the smear can be achieved under good conditions.This must be done away from sex (at least 48 hours after) and without menstrual periods. The occurrence of infection or limitation of local therapy also requires to postpone consideration until later. Finally, if you are menopausal, your doctor may prescribe an examination before estrogen treatment.
An easy consideration - The technique is simple: the doctor removes some cells from the cervix during your pelvic exam and spread on a slide. This allows a doctor to examine cytopathologist. Today, research has established a link between a virus, HPV or HPV and the occurrence of cervical cancer. Thus, some call for a strengthening of smear screening tests to detect these viruses.
While its use remains the subject of much debate, the test for HPV will be reimbursed by Social Security since February 14, 2004 under the following single statement: equivocal smears of undetermined significance (ASCUS). The reimbursement will be based on the rating B180, which corresponds to 48.60 euros.
The only test available on the market marketed by Digene laboratory will allow the practitioner to sort out the misunderstanding when smear cytology only allows dubious interpretation. A single reimbursement per patient is predicted even if the repetition of this examination may be justified in cases of positivity of the first positive test or in immuno-compromised patients.
If a first mark some smear abnormalities, especially do not worry. In most cases this injury completely benign or cancer in very preliminary stages. After the biopsy, the doctor will choose the appropriate treatment for you or, in the case of a mild or severe dysplasia, close monitoring, a vaporization of the lesion, excision (or removal) of part of the neck where injury or, in rare cases, a more extensive surgery or radiotherapy. But in any case, regular monitoring will be imposed later, at least during the early years.
Test For Cervical Cancer
Published on Mar 13 2010, in the categories: Causes, Facts, HPV, Useful info, tests
Vaccinated or not, think about the smear test! Cancer of the cervix is preventable through regular screening and vaccination. However, it still causes allot of deaths each year. Faced with this scourge, the National Cancer Institute launched a new screening campaign based on the pharmacists.
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The National Cancer Institute, in partnership with the National Council of the College of Pharmacists launches from June 8, 2009 a national awareness campaign to screening for cervical cancer of the uterus. In total, 23 000 pharmacies in metropolitan France and overseas will be mobilized to highlight the importance of Pap smear screening.
HPV causes cancer of the cervix - Pap smears of the cervix is caused by common viruses in the family papillomavirus (HPV), 1st cause of viral sexually transmitted infections worldwide.Contamination occurs most often during sex. The problem is that condoms do not protect against these viruses that spread through mucous membranes.
Unfavorable HPV infection is not systematic, it is a necessary cause but not enough of certain cancers. During life, the majority of adults has been in contact with the HPV virus, but most of the time the body is able to eliminate them. However, sometimes the infection persists and causes abnormalities (lesions) in the cells of the cervix. It takes about 15 years for a cancer develops after infection with high-risk HPV oncogene. Vaccine for younger smears for all women!
There are still about 1 000 deaths each year in the UK from cancer of the cervix uteri, while most could be avoided. Indeed, two complementary solutions exist to protect the cancer vaccine and the Pap smear screening. If vaccination should be offered only to girls who have not been exposed to infection by HPV, all women, whether vaccinated or not, should have regular smear between 25 and 65.
The smear is a simple, painless and should be effective to be done regularly. Health authorities have defined the frequency of that review once every three years after two normal tests performed at one year intervals for all women 25 to 65. The pharmacist, actor Prevention - That is why the National Cancer Institute is launching a new campaign to explain the importance of smear: "vaccinated or not from 25 years to do a smear screening.
Participating pharmacies, each woman who comes in during the dispensing of an HPV vaccine, a contraceptive or a gynecological treatment will be advised on screening for cervical cancer and thus be motivated to practice regular smears. Leaflets public on screening for cervical cancer of the uterus and poster accompany the speech of the pharmacist. In addition, a poster campaign in pharmacies will be held from June 8
To complete the field, the National Cancer Institute on its present site a FAQ devoted to screening. It aims to fight against certain ideas about the smear. The skits that are composed of reflections from the more common that women can have on the cancer and the smear. The smear is more than ever the need for action effectively fight against cancer of the cervix. So ladies, do you get tested regularly!
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The National Cancer Institute, in partnership with the National Council of the College of Pharmacists launches from June 8, 2009 a national awareness campaign to screening for cervical cancer of the uterus. In total, 23 000 pharmacies in metropolitan France and overseas will be mobilized to highlight the importance of Pap smear screening.
HPV causes cancer of the cervix - Pap smears of the cervix is caused by common viruses in the family papillomavirus (HPV), 1st cause of viral sexually transmitted infections worldwide.Contamination occurs most often during sex. The problem is that condoms do not protect against these viruses that spread through mucous membranes.
Unfavorable HPV infection is not systematic, it is a necessary cause but not enough of certain cancers. During life, the majority of adults has been in contact with the HPV virus, but most of the time the body is able to eliminate them. However, sometimes the infection persists and causes abnormalities (lesions) in the cells of the cervix. It takes about 15 years for a cancer develops after infection with high-risk HPV oncogene. Vaccine for younger smears for all women!
There are still about 1 000 deaths each year in the UK from cancer of the cervix uteri, while most could be avoided. Indeed, two complementary solutions exist to protect the cancer vaccine and the Pap smear screening. If vaccination should be offered only to girls who have not been exposed to infection by HPV, all women, whether vaccinated or not, should have regular smear between 25 and 65.
The smear is a simple, painless and should be effective to be done regularly. Health authorities have defined the frequency of that review once every three years after two normal tests performed at one year intervals for all women 25 to 65. The pharmacist, actor Prevention - That is why the National Cancer Institute is launching a new campaign to explain the importance of smear: "vaccinated or not from 25 years to do a smear screening.
Participating pharmacies, each woman who comes in during the dispensing of an HPV vaccine, a contraceptive or a gynecological treatment will be advised on screening for cervical cancer and thus be motivated to practice regular smears. Leaflets public on screening for cervical cancer of the uterus and poster accompany the speech of the pharmacist. In addition, a poster campaign in pharmacies will be held from June 8
To complete the field, the National Cancer Institute on its present site a FAQ devoted to screening. It aims to fight against certain ideas about the smear. The skits that are composed of reflections from the more common that women can have on the cancer and the smear. The smear is more than ever the need for action effectively fight against cancer of the cervix. So ladies, do you get tested regularly!