What are the early symptoms of cervical cancer?

When people mention cervical cancer, they think of death. Cancer has a great impact on everyone. It is a disease that is difficult to treat, especially advanced cancer. The same is true for cervical cancer. Even if the cervix is ​​removed, as long as the cancer cells spread, life cannot be saved. Therefore, early detection of symptoms and treatment are more meaningful, and life can be prolonged. So what are the early symptoms of cervical cancer? To understand the early symptoms of the disease, please read the following article.

There are no symptoms in the early stages of cervical cancer. As the disease progresses, patients may experience abnormal vaginal bleeding. Since young women are in their sexually active period, their estrogen levels and sexual intercourse frequency are higher, so they are more likely to have bleeding during sexual intercourse as the first symptom. In addition, increased vaginal discharge is also a common symptom of cervical cancer, and about 80% of cervical cancer patients have this symptom.

Clinical follow-up observations show that it takes about 10 years for general cervical precancerous lesions to develop into cervical cancer. From this perspective, cervical cancer is not terrible. It is a preventable and curable disease. The key to prevention and treatment is: regular gynecological examinations, timely detection and treatment of cervical precancerous lesions, and termination of their development into cervical cancer. If preventive and treatment measures are implemented, the cure rate of cervical cancer is very high.

There are usually no symptoms in the early stages, and there is no obvious difference from chronic cervicitis. Sometimes the cervix may even be smooth, especially in elderly women whose cervix has atrophied. The main symptoms are:

Irregular vaginal bleeding: The early symptoms are a small amount of bloody leucorrhea and contact vaginal bleeding. Patients often come to the doctor because of a small amount of vaginal bleeding after sexual intercourse or defecation. For those who experience vaginal bleeding after menopause, attention should be paid to finding the cause. Vaginal bleeding caused by cervical cancer is often very irregular, usually a little at first and then more, sometimes more and sometimes less. Cauliflower-shaped bleeding occurs early and in large amounts. When advanced cancer erodes large blood vessels, it can cause fatal, massive vaginal bleeding. Due to long-term repeated bleeding, patients often develop anemia.

Vaginal discharge: Patients often complain of increased vaginal discharge, which is white or bloody, thin like water or rice soup, and has a fishy odor. In the late stage, due to the rupture of cancerous tissue, tissue necrosis, secondary infection, etc., a large amount of purulent or rice-soup-like foul-smelling leucorrhea is discharged.

What are the early symptoms of the cervix during cervical cancer? There are not many early symptoms of any disease, but careful patients can still find abnormalities, but they cannot be sure that it is cervical cancer. Therefore, we must pay attention to any symptoms that appear in the body. Even if it is a minor illness, we must go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis. Such awareness can help us detect early cervical cancer and other cancers. After relevant treatment and care, the chance of cancer cells spreading will be reduced.