You may already know about various treatments for cervical cancer that
properly applied based on its stage. Less of you may also know about the
perfect treatment to apply for specific condition of cervical cancer patient.
There are two specific conditions that will study here. Those conditions are
recurrent cervical cancer and cervical cancer during pregnancy.
Recurrent cervical cancer
Before talking about what proper
treatment to apply dealing with this condition then you need to know what it
means by recurrent cancer. Recurrent cervical cancer is the condition when the
cancer is come back after treatment applied. In fact, cancer cell can come back
in the first infection area or near with it. The common infected area are
cervix, uterus or near the pelvic organs. Some rare case is also happen when
the cancer cell is occur in some distant are such as spread into the lung,
bone, bloodstream or in lymphatic system.
If the cervical cancer is recurred
in the pelvis area then extensive surgery such as pelvic exenteration is
proper to apply. This method proves to achieve success around 40 up to 50%. To
relieve the symptom, you may take some chemo or radiation treatment. If you
choose chemotherapy then you should understand that there is some goal and
limitation to apply. The best way is held some previous discussion with your
doctor before applied it.
Cervical cancer during pregnancy
Pregnancy is critical period since
what you do in this period will affect not only you but also the fetus inside
the womb. That is why you must be carefully examined and chooses the proper
treatment. Even though there is only small case of cervical cancer during
pregnancy but it is still possible to happen. If the cancer that infected is
still in early age such as 1A then you may safely continue the pregnancy.
When you already deliver the baby
then you can continue to the next treatment method. Usually, several weeks
after delivery process, you can take a cone biopsy or hysterectomy treatment.
Be sure that you have previous discussion with the doctor about your condition
and the proper treatment to take to avoid any wrong decision. The cone biopsy
itself is only recommended for the patient that hassub stage 1A1 of cervical
cancer.
Different thing happen when you have
higher stage of cervical cancer stage. If you get 1B or higher cervical cancer
then you should have some serious discussion with your doctor to decide whether
you want to continue your pregnancy or not regarding your condition. If your
decision is not to continue then you can take radiation and radical
hysterectomy. In the other side, cesarean section is the properly action to
take for delivery process. If you have advanced stages then you will need more
immediate treatment for cervical cancer.
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