What are the symptoms of uterine cancer and ovarian cancer

Uterine cancer not only affects the happy life of female patients and causes disharmony between couples, but also brings huge treatment costs to patients. Because some patients do not understand the symptoms of uterine cancer, the disease is not controlled in time, thus delaying the treatment. Some patients do not realize the seriousness of the disease even in the late stage of uterine cancer, which even threatens their life and health.

Symptoms of Uterine Cancer

1. Vaginal bleeding This is one of the early symptoms of uterine cancer. Subserous uterine cancer usually has no vaginal bleeding. When the tumor of intramural uterine cancer is large, it may affect uterine contraction or increase the area of ​​endometrium, causing excessive menstruation or prolonged menstruation. If it is a submucosal uterine cancer, there may be irregular vaginal bleeding, which is continuous.

2. Abdominal mass is also an early symptom of uterine cancer. Uterine cancer patients are mostly discovered by chance or during a census.

3. Compression symptoms. Different compression symptoms may occur due to the different growth sites and sizes of uterine cancer tumors. For example, if the fibroids grow on the anterior wall of the uterus, the uterine cancer patient may compress the bladder and cause frequent urination, urgency, and even urinary retention. If the fibroids grow on the posterior wall of the uterus, the early symptoms of uterine cancer may also compress the rectum and cause constipation. Fibroids occurring in the broad ligament may compress the ureter, internal and external iliac veins, and nerves, resulting in ureteral obstruction, hydronephrosis, lower limb edema, or neuralgic pain.

When many women find out that they have ovarian cancer, the disease has already developed to the late stage. This will increase the difficulty of treatment and easily cause them to lose their precious lives. The main reason for this is that people do not understand the early symptoms of ovarian cancer. So, what are the early symptoms of ovarian cancer?

Ovarian Cancer Symptoms

Ovarian cancer is a common gynecological malignancy, accounting for a quarter of female reproductive organ cancers and the most lethal gynecological cancer. The incidence of ovarian cancer is still increasing year by year.

Ovarian cancer often presents with digestive tract symptoms at first. As the tumor grows, the patient may experience lower abdominal pain or discomfort and lose appetite, or feel full after eating a small amount of food, experience indigestion, nausea, and weight loss.

If the tumor has pressed on other organs, for example, if it presses on the intestines, it may cause changes in bowel habits; if it presses on the bladder, it may cause frequent urination. In rare cases, ovarian cancer may also cause menstrual abnormalities.

When the tumor grows larger than 15 centimeters, the patient may be able to feel the lump himself, and the abdomen will be visibly bulging. At this time, ascites will often occur. In severe cases, it will cause difficulty breathing, pain, bleeding, vomiting and inability to eat.