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Symptoms Let's look at the clinical symptoms of cervical cancer. Screening is very important because early cervical cancer is mostly asymptomatic. The most common symptom is irregular or heavy vaginal bleeding or postcoital bleeding. However, vaginal discharge may cause nonspecific symptoms such as vaginal discharge. Therefore, it is very important for the gynecologist to have a cervical examination when it complains. Screening of cervical cancer is done by cervical cytology, ie, cervical cytology, also called PAP smear. Colposcopy may be performed according to the results of this test, and colposcopy directed biopsy may be performed to diagnose cervical cancer. Treatment In the case of cervical cancer IA1, it may be considered an early cervical cancer. The first case of uterine cervical cancer is known as early cervical cancer. The treatment modalities are various, mainly modified radical hysterectomy as definitive surgery, fertility-sparing surgery may be performed if pregna...

Epidemiology Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among gynecologic cancers and the third highest among women with cancer. It has lower incidence and lower mortality rate than uterine cancer or ovarian cancer. Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been identified as the cause of cervical cancer and HPV is found in 99.7 percent of cervical cancer patients. The histologic classification of cervical cancer is 69% of patients with squamous cell type and 25% of patients with adenocarcinoma. The number of newly diagnosed cervical cancer worldwide is estimated at 528,000, and in 2012, 266,000 died of cervical cancer. The two major histologic categories of cervical cancer are squamous cell type and adenocarcinoma, as discussed above, and share a risk factor that causes both types of cancer. The incidence of cervical cancer increases at the early age of sexual life, but it increases more than 1.5 times in cases between 18 and 20 years of age. Also, the risk of developing cervical cancer ...