Active Passive Cigarette Cervical Cancer

Early diagnosis of cervical cancer is exceedingly important, as the survival rate reduces with the advancing stage. For this reason, each woman (especially those, who are in the child-bearing age group) will have to be conscious of the early sensations or changes of cervical cancer and the danger elements which make her prone to the disease. If you have any of the sensations or changes cited here, then visit your doctor without delay for investigations to rule out cancer of cervix.

Early Symptoms or Warning Signs of Cervical Cancer

Though, ofttimes the sickness remains asymptomatic in the early stages, with silent progression; however, a heap of women have these symptoms:

1. Abnormal bleeding from vagina

Cancer of cervix may manifest itself in the form of disorders of menstruation or unnatural bleeding, like:

• Bleeding after coitus
• Inter-menstrual bleeding
• Bleeding on straining ( e.g. defecation)
• Bleeding after menopause
• Irregular menstrual cycles
• Continuous bleeding
• Excessive bleeding

2. Abnormal discharge from vagina

Cervical cancer may likewise manifest in the form of unnatural discharge from vagina, which is in the form of:

• Excessive white discharge
• Blood stained discharge
• Offensive discharge
• Discharge which does not create itching

Symptoms cited above, warn when it comes to the cervical cancer, especially when present in women with high peril elements for cancer of cervix.

Women at Higher Risk for Cervical Cancer

Presence of these features, make a woman even more prone to cervical cancer:

• Younger women in generative age group
• Women who started coitus early, that is, before 18 years of age
• Women who delivered a baby before 20 years of age
• Many births at short intervals
• More than one sexual partner
• Habit of cigarette smoking
• Alcohol or drug abuse
• Prolonged use of oral contraceptive pills
• Women with sexually transmitted impairment of normal physiological functions or STD
• Women infected with herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV 2) or humane papilloma virus (HPV)
• HIV positive women
• Use of immunosuppressive drugs after organ transplant
• Coitus with a man whose former wife passed from physical life of cervical cancer

Conclusion

Though in a good deal of cases, cervical cancer persons who requires medical care do not have any symptom in the early stages; however, numerous women may have a few symptoms, like unnatural vaginal bleeding in the form of post-coital, post-menopausal or inter-menstrual bleeding or excessive, offensive discharge from vagina. These sensations or changes raise more suspicion, if present in women having the danger constituents for the disease.

Please Note: All sexually active women among 18 to 60 years of age will have to visit their doctor for regular health check ups and pap test to exclude the cancer of cervix, in each three years.

Active Passive Cigarette Cervical Cancer

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Citation Details
Title: Active and passive cigarette smoke hazardous for cervical cancer.
Publication: Medical Update (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 1989
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc.
Volume: v12 Issue: n11 Page: p4(2)

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