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Cervical Cancer Treatment
There are treatments for all patients with cervical cancer. Uses three kinds of treatment:
- Surgery (removing the cancer in an operation)
- Radiation therapy (high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells).
- Chemotherapy (drugs or “poison” to kill cancer cells).
The cancer can be removed using one of the following:
- Cryosurgery involves the removal of the cancer by freezing.
- The laser surgery is the use of a beam of intense light to kill cancer cells.
- Conization is the removal of a piece of fabric into a cone shape at the location of the abnormality. It is used for biopsies, but also for treatment of early cancers of the cervix.
- Electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) uses an electric current passes through a thin wire loop, which serves as a blade.
- A hysterectomy is an operation that removes the entire uterus, including the entire cervix and the cancer.
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What is Cervical Cancer?
Cervical cancer is a common type of cancer in women, and is a disease in which cells are cancerous (malignant) in the tissues of the cervix.
The uterus is the hollow organ, inverted pear-shaped, where a fetus grows. The neck or uterine cervix is an opening that connects the uterus to the vagina (birth canal).
Cervical cancer begins to grow slowly. Before appearing cancer cells in the cervix, normal tissues of the cervix go through a process known as dysplasia, in which abnormal cells begin to appear.
A Pap smear staining usually find these pre-malignant cells. Subsequently, cancer cells start to grow and spread more deeply into the cervix and surrounding areas.
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