Cervical cancer is caused by the cellular anomalies which appear inside the uterine tube. Most of the precancerous cells appear at the cervix level, a zone which suffers constantly periodic modifications (dependent on the terms). During this physiologic process, the cervical cells can suffer different mutations, favoring the appearance of abnormal calls, especially in case of infection with human virus Papiloma (it is a virus with sexual transmission which provokes injuries at the uterine tube’s level and it is considered a big risk for cervical cancer appearance).There are two types of cervical cancer: cervical Aden carcinoma and cervical cancer with foam cells (epidermoid).

The cells which tapestried the cervix suffer, usually, easy to severe modifications until they become cancerous. These pre-cancerous modifications represent the dysplasia. There are three types if this disease: easy cervical dysplasia, moderate cervical dysplasia and severe cervical dysplasia. Itself, cervical dysplasia is not grave, but it is considered a precancerous phase. If it is not treated, dysplasia may lead to o precocious phase of cancer, also called “carcinoma in situ” and after that it may progress to cervical cancer. The evolution of cervical dysplasia to cancer is made slowly, in a period of 10 years or even more than that.

The symptoms of cervical cancer are not noticeable in the first phase. The cellular modifications inside the cervix are usually not symptomatic, in this incipient stadium the diagnostic is realized basing the result of the Papanicolau test.

Along with the development of the cancerous process other symptoms appear: abnormal vaginal bleeding or terms modifications (menometroragies); cervix bleeding during the sexual contact or in the moment of diaphragm insertion; the feeling of pain during the sexual contact (dispareuny); abnormal vaginal secretion in big quantities and sometimes mixed with thin motes of blood; unjustified tiredness condition. There can even appear fractures.

Advanced cervical cancer has the following symptoms: anemia caused by abnormal loses of blood; pelvic pain (the inferior side of the abdomen), inferior member’s pain or lumbar pain; vaginal fistula (abnormal communication between vagina and rectum, meaning the urinary bladder, so the excrements and the urine are eliminated by vagina) - the fistula appears due to extension of the cancerous process at the level of tissues around); losing weight (more kilograms in some weeks, months).



As we know, it is by far easier to prevent a sickness than to cure it. A lot of human lives can be saved there are respected several simple things: carrying a healthy life (having a diet poor in meet and rich in fruits and vegetables, daily consummation of 2 liters of good and clean water, respecting the resting hours), making sport every day, periodical prosecution of tests (even if we do not have the symptoms of cervical cancer) in order to track down the disease (Babes-Papanicolau and other) – which must begin at maxim 2 or 3 years from the first sexual contact (but not later than 21 years), having the first sexual contact at a proper age and finding a stabile sex partner.