Women are easily infected by the deadly disease. one yait cancer. The top level occupied namely cervical cancer. cervical cancer is a type of cancer caused 99.7% of cervical attacked by the human papilloma virus (HPV) oncogenic. These cancers present with a vaginal bleeding, before it entered the stage of cancer further, cancer symptoms are not visible. if you want to see cervical cancer the focus of observation should use a Pap smear. When cervical cancer occurs when cells in the womb of an uncontrollable divide and become abnormal. and if these cells continue to divide, the old-old will form a mass of tissue called tumor.tumor there are two kinds of tumors can be benign or malignant. Condition was referred to as cervical cancer if the tumor has become malignant.
Factors that can cause cervical cancer as belows:
- Marriage at young age or sex at young age. This factor is a major risk factor. If The younger a woman to have sex, the greater the risk for cervical cancer. Experts suggest that women who had sex at age less than 17 years will have 3 times higher risk of cervical cancer than those married at the age of 20 years.
- Changing sexual partners. Sexual disorders in the form of mutually sex couples will give a big impact is increased spread of venereal disease. example adaah transmitted disease human papillomavirus infection (HPV) which has been shown to increase the growth of cervical cancer, vulva and penis. Risk of cervical cancer becomes greater in the women who have sexual partners 6 or more people. co-factor could be herpes simplex virus type-2.
- Smoking. Women smokers have a risk 2-fold greater cervical cancer than women who do not smoke. Research shows that the existence, nicotine and other substances in the smoke can contained in cervical mucus in women smokers. so that these substances would weaken the resistance of the cervix in addition to a co-carcinogenic viral infection.
- Nutrient deficiencies. Studies have shown that the deficiency of folic acid may increase the risk of mild to moderate dysplasia, may also increase the risk of outbreak of cervical cancer in women who are less food containing beta carotene and retinol (vitamin A).
- Trauma for the example chronic infection of the cervix, childbirth, and chronic irritation. In phase before suffering from cancer, there is often no specific symptoms. However, sometimes can be found in the symptoms that weird as follows:
- bleeding after intercourse that after was bleeding continues to be abnormal bleeding.
- Whitish or watery discharge from the vagina.
- In the invasive phase, discharge yellowish color. This fluid can be smelled and mixed with blood.
- Incidence of bleeding after menopause
- Symptoms occur when the anemia of chronic hemorrhage.
- pelvic pain (pelvic) when there is inflammation of the pelvis. sometimes felt pain occurred in areas waist down, this happens hydronephrosis. In addition, sometimes there is pain in other places.
- At an advanced stage, leg edema occurs, the body will become emaciated due to malnutrition, arising irritation at the pivot of the lower intestine and urinary bladder, the formation fistel vesikovaginal or symptoms arising due to distant metastases.
Like a cancer, this type of cancer may also experience dissemination. The spread of cervical cancer there are three, namely:
- The spread directly into parametrium, uterine corpus, vagina, bladder and rectum.
- Through the blood vessels (haematogenous)
- Through the lymph vessels to the other nodes.
The spread far can pass through blood vessels and lymph vessels. This occurs mainly spread to mediastinal lymph nodes, lungs, and supraklavikuler, bones and liver. then spread to the lungs may cause symptoms of coughing, coughing blood, and sometimes even chest pain. but sometimes accompanied by enlarged lymph nodes on the left especially supraklavikula.
