How is cervical cancer treated? Is surgery possible?

  Cervical cancer is one of the common malignant tumors in women. The cause of its development is still unknown, and women who marry early, have children early, give birth to many children and have a disordered sex life have a higher prevalence. It has no symptoms at the initial stage, but abnormal vaginal bleeding may occur in the later stage. The current treatment plan is based on surgery and radiation therapy, but the cure rate is very low for patients in the middle and late stages. As a woman, she should clean herself, strengthen her health care, pay attention to gynecological screening on time, and seek medical treatment in time when she finds the first signs of symptoms.  Symptoms of cervical cancer 1. Early stage is mostly asymptomatic, and there is no obvious difference with chronic cervicitis, sometimes even smooth cervix, especially in elderly women who have atrophied cervix. Vaginal bleeding: Young patients often show contact bleeding, which occurs during sex, gynecological examination and after stool. The amount of bleeding can be large or small, generally depending on the size of the lesion and the invasion of the interstitial vessels. Early bleeding is small, while later lesions are large and may cause fatal hemorrhage once they erode larger blood vessels. Young patients may also present with prolonged periods, shortened cycles, and increased menstrual flow. Older patients often complain of irregular vaginal bleeding after menopause.  Vaginal discharge: Patients often complain of increased vaginal discharge, which is white or bloody, thin like watery or rice soup-like, with fishy odor. In late stage, due to the rupture of cancer tissue, tissue necrosis and secondary infection, there is a large amount of purulent or rice-soup-like foul-smelling leucorrhea discharge.  2.Symptoms of advanced cancer: secondary symptoms appear according to the invasion range of lesions. When the lesion spreads to connective tissue of pelvic cavity, pelvic wall, compressing ureter or rectum or sciatic nerve, patients often complain of frequent urination, urgent urination, anal swelling, constipation, shortness of breath, swelling and pain of lower limbs, etc. In serious cases, it leads to ureteral obstruction and hydronephrosis, and finally causes uremia. At the end of the disease, patients may suffer from emaciation, anemia, fever and general failure.  Cervical cancer treatment methods 1.Chinese medicine treatment Chinese medicine treatment methods have the characteristics of strong overall concept, less toxic side effects and help to eliminate evil, which have achieved promising effects in the treatment of cervical cancer, especially the middle and late stage cervical cancer. It can effectively inhibit and kill tumor cells and prevent metastasis of cancer cells while treating the primary lesion.  2.Radiotherapy Radiotherapy is applicable to all stages of cervical cancer, even advanced cervical cancer. For those who are old and have poor heart function and cannot tolerate surgery, radiotherapy is a good treatment method. However, radiotherapy has certain complications, mainly radioactive rectum and cystitis, which need active treatment and recuperation to recover slowly.  3.Hormone therapy Hormone therapy for cervical cancer is regarded as palliative rather than curative, just like other cytotoxic anticancer chemotherapy. There are various progestin agents most commonly used at present. And estrogen antagonists are effective for recurrent lesions whose primary tumor is estrogen receptor positive, or when progestin therapy fails, the application of this drug is effective.  4.Surgical treatment Surgery is applicable to early stage cervical cancer, and the scope of surgery is radical hysterectomy, that is, the uterus, part of vagina and parametrial tissues are removed together, while bilateral pelvic lymph nodes should be removed, and those without ovarian lesions can be considered to be preserved.  The advantage of surgical cervical cancer treatment is that the cancer can be completely removed in one operation in early stage cases and the treatment period is short. The disadvantage is that the scope of surgery is large and complications such as urinary dysfunction may occur to a certain extent after the operation, which requires a period of recuperation and exercise to return to normal.  For malignant diseases like cervical cancer, it is chosen according to different ages and conditions. Generally, those who are young and have good physical strength may be cured if timely surgery is performed. However, the disadvantages are also very obvious. If the surgery is not performed properly or the postoperative care is not perfect, it will cause more serious harm to the patient.  (1) Postoperative infection This surgery is one of the larger ones, which will remove the uterine body of the patient, and is a high-risk period for infection until the surgical incision heals.  (2) Stress reaction Many patients have experienced aging of the body after surgical treatment, such as dry hair and irritability, which is actually caused by the stress reaction of the body.  (3) Decreased immune function The surgical treatment not only removes the subunit, but also causes damage to the immune function of the patient.