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.
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.
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.
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