Cervical cancer life expectancy

Generally speaking, cervical cancer is a relatively serious gynecological disease because women's lives are seriously threatened after suffering from cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is mainly caused by human papillomavirus infection. Therefore, to avoid cervical cancer, we must prevent the body from being infected with papillomavirus. And each severity of cervical cancer will have different effects on the body. So how long can you live after suffering from cervical cancer?

Cervical cancer can cause great harm to women's bodies. How long a cervical cancer patient can survive depends on the patient's treatment effect and physical function.

Therefore, patients with advanced cervical cancer must choose a scientific, effective and reasonable treatment plan to better treat cervical cancer. At the same time, cervical cancer patients should also improve their physical fitness and resistance, maintain an optimistic attitude, and actively cooperate with treatment, so as to prolong the life span of patients with advanced cervical cancer as much as possible.

Generally speaking, late-stage cervical cancer is mainly treated with traditional Chinese medicine. The 5-year survival rate of patients with late-stage cervical cancer treated with traditional Chinese medicine can reach more than 85%. It can be seen that the life expectancy of cervical cancer patients mainly depends on whether appropriate treatment is taken in time. We all know that early cervical cancer is very small and has not metastasized or spread. At this time, the most effective treatment is surgical removal. The 5-year survival rate of patients with early cervical cancer treated with surgical resection can reach over 90%.

Symptoms of cervical cancer

1. In the early stage of vaginal bleeding, it is mostly contact bleeding; in the middle and late stages, it is irregular vaginal bleeding. The amount of bleeding varies depending on the size of the lesion and the extent of invasion of interstitial blood vessels. If large blood vessels are invaded, massive bleeding may occur. Young patients may also experience prolonged menstruation and increased menstrual flow; elderly patients often experience irregular vaginal bleeding after menopause. Generally, vaginal bleeding symptoms appear earlier in the exogenous type and the amount of bleeding is heavy, while the symptoms appear later in the endogenous type.

2. Vaginal discharge Most patients have vaginal discharge. The liquid is white or bloody, and can be as thin as water or rice water, or have a fishy odor. Patients in the late stage may have a large amount of rice-soup-like or purulent and foul-smelling leucorrhea due to necrosis of cancerous tissue and infection.

3. Late-stage symptoms include different secondary symptoms depending on the extent of cancer involvement. Such as frequent urination, urgency, constipation, swelling and pain in the lower limbs, etc.; when the tumor compresses or involves the ureter, it can cause ureteral obstruction, hydronephrosis and uremia; in the late stage, there may be symptoms of systemic failure such as anemia and cachexia.

Main causes of cervical cancer

What high-risk factors have brought the age of onset of cervical cancer so much earlier? Experts say that the younger age of cervical cancer is related to factors such as early age of first sexual intercourse, early childbearing, and sexual disorders.

It is understood that as the onset of puberty among teenagers is significantly earlier, they "taste the forbidden fruit" and start sexual life at an age much earlier than before. At the same time, some young people also have wrong understandings and behaviors regarding their sex life.

Data show that if a woman has more than five sexual partners, her HPV (human papillomavirus) infection rate will be three times higher than that of a woman with only a single sexual partner; the younger the age at which one starts sexual life, the higher the HPV infection rate. This is because the above behaviors will cause damage to the female cervix, reducing its self-protection ability. The relationship between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer has been proven by medical research.

Too frequent sexual intercourse, unhygienic sexual life, and the stimulation of carcinogenic substances contained in the dirt accumulated due to the excessive foreskin of the penis in men can also increase the risk of cervical cancer.

In addition, a large number of census results in my country show that the morbidity of marriage before the age of 17 is 3.9 times higher than that after the age of 18, the age of first birth before the age of 18 is 3.2 times that after the age of 18; the number of births of more than 4 is twice that of less than 3. These data all show that early marriage, early childbearing and frequent births significantly increase the likelihood of developing cervical cancer.

These all remind women to pay attention to their sex life. The best age to have a child is between 25 and 30 years old, and underage women should avoid having sexual intercourse. Having children late or not having children at all is bad for your health, but having children before the age of 20 or having too many children also poses a threat to a woman's cervix.