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.

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.