Showing posts with label Cervical Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cervical Cancer. Show all posts

How to Prevent and Treatment Cervical Cancer


It has been described in previous articles what is cervical cancer. And how to detect cervical cancer. Then how to prevent and treatment of cervical cancer as follows:

Preventing Cervical Cancer

Although cervical cancer is scary, but we all can prevent it. You can do a lot of precautionary measures before ultimately infected with HPV and cervical cancer. Some practical ways you can do in everyday life include:

Have a healthy diet, rich in vegetables, fruit and cereal to stimulate the immune system. For example, consume a variety of carotene, vitamins A, C, and E, and folic acid can reduce the risk of cervical cancer.
  • Avoid smoking. Nicotine makes all the mucous membranes of body cells react or become aroused, both the mucosal throat, lungs, and cervix.
  • Avoid vitamin C deficiency
    Lifestyle of high fat foods will make people forget the other nutrients, like beta carotene, vitamin C, and folic acid.
    In fact, all three nutrient deficiencies can cause cervical cancer arise. Beta carotene, vitamin C, and folic acid can improve or strengthen diserviks mucosa.
  • Avoid having sex too early
    Sexual intercourse should ideally be done after a woman is completely cooked. The size of maturity is not only seen it already menstruating or not. But it also depends on the maturity of the cells contained in the mucosal lining of the inner skin of the body cavity.
    Generally new mucosal cells mature after the woman is aged 20 years and over. So, a woman having sex in their teens most vulnerable when it is done under the age of 16. It deals with the maturity of mucosal cells in the cervix of the woman. At a young age, the mucosal cells of the cervix not ripe.
  • Avoid having sex during menstrual period proved to be effective to prevent and inhibit the formation and development of cervical cancer.
  • Avoid sex with many partners. Cervical cancer can also appear in women who have multiple sex partners. When you have sex only with their partner, and her partner did not have sex with someone else, then it will not lead to cervical cancer. When changing partners, it is associated with the possibility of contracting venereal disease, one of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
  • Undergo routine Pap smear tests regularly. Current Pap smear can be done even at the health center at an affordable price.
  • Alternative Pap smear is a test IVA with a cheaper cost of Pap smears. The goal for the early detection of HPV infection.
  • Giving the HPV vaccine or vaccination to prevent HPV infection.
  • Perform cleaning of intimate organs or vagina known as a toilet. This can be done alone or can be also with the help of expert doctors. The goal is to clean the female sex organs of dirt and disease.
  • Use of estrogen.
    The same risk will occur in late postmenopausal women. Because stimulation of the endometrium will be longer, so endometriumnya will more often exposed to estrogen. So it's very possible the cancer occurred.
    No wonder that women who use estrogen uncontrolled highly susceptible to cancer. Generally, the menopausal women in developed countries use estrogen to prevent osteroporosis and heart attacks.

    However, its use is very risky because estrogen stimulates the endometrial wall thickening and stimulate endometrial cells that turn into cancer properties

Cervical Cancer Treatment

If infected with HPV, do not worry, because the currently available range of treatments that can control HPV infection. Treatment aims to kill some cells that contain the HPV virus. Another way is to remove the damaged or infected with electric surgery, laser surgery, or cryosurgery (remove the abnormal tissue by freezing).

If cervical cancer has reached an advanced stage, it will be done chemo therapy. In some severe cases may also be performed hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus or womb in total. Aim is to remove cervical cancer cells that have been developed on the body.

However, prevention is better than cure. Therefore, how to prevent HPV infection and cervical cancer? Here are some ways you can do to prevent cervical cancer.

Detection of Cervical Cancer


How do I detect that a woman at risk for cervical cancer?. The easiest way to find out by cytological examination of the cervix. This examination is currently popular is the Pap smear or Papanicolaou smear taken from the Greek name of the doctor who discovered this method of George N. Papanicolaou. In addition, there are also various other methods for early detection of cervical cancer or HPV (human papillomavirus) infection as well as follows:

1. IVA Inspection (Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid).
This examination by applying the cervix and then daubed with 5 percent acetic acid, wait for 3 minutes. Last seen with the naked eye if there is no change in color or white color does not appear, then the result is negative. This examination can be done in the clinic and the cost is relatively inexpensive at around 10 thousand to 20 thousand.

2. Pap Smear
This examination should be performed by women who have had sexual intercourse and performed regularly. You do this by taking cervical lymph then daubed on the slide and in-fixation with a certain liquid and then viewed with a microscope. Can later be seen whether they are abnormal cervical cells or not after as compared with normal cervical cells. The cost ranges from 60 thousand to 100 thousand.


3. Examination of Thin prep
This examination has an accuracy and precision is higher than the pap smear. You do this by taking the sap of the cervix and then dipped into a bottle containing a liquid fixation and centrifuged until a homogeneous, then taken a bit to daubed on the slides and performed the examination. Can diagnose pre-cancerous cells and cervical cancer cells, but the price offered is also more expensive and could reach three times the price of pap smears.

4. Colposcopy Examination
This examination using colposcopy to see abnormalities of the cervix. This tool uses a powerful beam and binocular microscope with a magnification of 5 to 40 times. Currently colposcopy has become the primary method of cervical cancer screening in several European countries. This method should be done by experts who understand. Previous medical personnel will enter the liquid to give color to the cervical canal, then perform a colposcopy and abnormal cells will appear. These areas will be sampled to find out what causes it.

There is nothing wrong with all the early examination of cervical cancer, you can perform checks anywhere and can be tailored to your financial condition. The most important thing is prevention is better and it can only be done by early detection of cervical cancer

How to prevent and treatment Cervical Cancer

Cervical Cancer


Cervical cancer is a disease caused by a malignant tumor on the cervix as a result of uncontrolled growth of tissue and surrounding normal tissue damage

Etiology
The cause of cervical cancer has not clearly known but there are some risks and predisposing factors that stand out, among others:
1. Age first had sexual intercourse
Research shows that the more young women have sexual intercourse the greater get cervical cancer. Married at the age of 20 years is considered still too young
2. The number of pregnancy and parturition
Cervical cancer most often found in women who parturition. The more often partus the more likely the risk of having cervical Cancer.
3. Number of marriages
Women who frequent sexual intercourse and multiple partners have a major risk factor of cervical kankers this.
4. Viral infections
Infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV-2) and papilloma virus or condyloma viruses acuminata suspected as factor in cervical cancer
5. Social Economy
Cervical carcinoma often found in lower socioeconomic groups may be socio-economic factors closely related to nutrition, immunity and personal hygiene. In the lower socioeconomic groups generally lack the quantity and quality of food does this affect the body's immunity.
6. Hygiene and circumcision
Presumably the influence of easy occurrence of cervical cancer in women whose partners have not been circumcised. This is because the non sircum male penile hygiene is not maintained so much a collection-a collection of smegma.
7. Smoking and the IUD (intrauterine device)
Smoking will stimulate the formation of cancer cells, while the use of an IUD will have an effect on the cervix that is originated from the erosion diserviks who later became a strep infection that is continuous, as this can trigger the formation of cervical cancer.


Classification of cervical cell growth will cancer

Microscopic
1. Dysplasia
Mild dysplasia occurred in one-third portions of the basal epidermis. Severe dysplasia occurred in two thirds epidermihampir indistinguishable from carcinoma in situ.

2. Carcinoma Stage in situ
In situ carcinoma epithelial cell changes occur in all layers of the epidermis into squamous cell carcinoma. Carcinoma in situ ectoservical growing area, transitional cell and squamous columnar endocervical reserve cells.

3. Mikroinvasif  Carcinoma Stage.
In Mikroinvasif Carcinoma, in addition to changes in the degree of increased cell growth of tumor cells also penetrate the basal membrane and invasion of the stoma so far no more than 5 mm from the basement membrane, these tumors are usually asymptomatic and only found on cancer screening.


4. Invasive Carcinoma Stage
In invasive carcinoma of the prominent changes in the degree of cell growth and cell shape varies. Growing invasive appeared in the area posterior or anterior cervical lip and extends the three departments of the posterior or anterior fornix majors, majors parametrial and corpus uteri.

5. Shape abnormalities in the growth of cervical carcinoma
Growth eksofilik, kool-shaped flowers, growing towards the vagina and can fill half of the vagina without infiltration into the vagina, growth form is easy to necrosis and hemorrhage.

Endofilik growth, usually in the form of ulcer lesions and progressive growth extends to the fornix, posterior and anterior to the corpus uteri and parametrial.
The growth of nodules, usually found in endocervical lesions which gradually transformed into ulcers.


Macroscopic
1. Preclinical stage
Indistinguishable from ordinary chronic cervicitis
2. Beginning Stage
Lesions appear most often around osteum externum
3. Half-up Stage
It has been about the most or the entire lip porsio
4. Advanced stage
Occurs destruction of cervical tissue, so it seems like ulcers with a network of fragile and bleed easily.


Clinical Symptoms


1. Bleeding
Nature can intermenstruit or contact bleeding, sometimes bleeding just happens to the next stage. On the type of bleeding occurs intraservikal slow.
2. Typically resembles water, sometimes there sebeluma onset of bleeding. In more advanced stages of hemorrhage and infection with more whitish fluid that comes out smelling so.


Diagnostic tests

1. Cytology / Pap Smear
Profits, cheap can check out the parts that are not visible.
Weakness, can not determine the precise localization.
2. Schillentest
Epithelial carcinoma of the cervix did not contain glycogen because it does not bind iodine. If porsio iodine then given a normal epithelial carcinoma will be colored brown, while the exposed carcinoma colorless.
3. Coloscopy
Check by using a tool to view the cervix with light and raised 10-40 times.
Advantages: can see clearly the areas concerned so easy to do a biopsy.
Weaknesses: only can check the area that looks just the porsio, are abnormalities in the squamous columnar junction
4. Colpomicroscopy
Seeing the vaginal smear (Pap smear) with magnification up to 200 times
5. Biopsy
With a biopsy can be found or specified types the cancer.
6. Conisation
By way of remove tissue containing mucous membranes and cervical squamous epithelium and gland. Conisation done when the results of cervical cytology in doubt and does not seem obvious abnormalities.


How to prevent and treatment Cervical Cancer

How to detect Cervical Cancer.