What are the early symptoms of cervical cancer? Does cervical cancer need regular screening?

Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers among all women, so female friends should not only know the early symptoms of cervical cancer in advance, but also have regular physical examinations. So what are the early symptoms of cervical cancer? What examinations should be done during the physical examination? Let's take a look!

Although there are no obvious symptoms in the early stages of cervical cancer, most patients will still experience varying degrees of discomfort. Therefore, you should be alert to cervical cancer when the following situations occur:

1. Cervical erosion. Almost all cervical cancers will have this condition. The more severe the symptoms of cervical erosion, the greater the possibility of cancer. If cervical erosion cannot be cured and the disease recurs, we must pay attention to cervical cancer.

2. Vaginal bleeding is one of the typical symptoms of cervical erosion, which usually occurs during sexual contact and vigorous toileting.

3. Female friends who suddenly bleed during their non-menstrual period and also experience abdominal pain and back pain from time to time, especially desperate women, must be careful about whether it is cervical cancer.

4. Some patients with cervical cancer may experience varying degrees of lower abdominal or lumbar pain

5. Another typical symptom of cervical cancer is increased secretion, odor, sometimes blood, and high viscosity. If you have sex after menopause or if a woman has this symptom, be careful.

In addition, since some patients with early cervical cancer do not have any symptoms, our best way is to have regular physical examinations. So, how to screen for cervical cancer? Let's take a look together!

Cervical cancer screening guidelines

According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, female friends can start regular screening for cervical cancer at around the age of 20. The specific items are as follows:

1. First, do a colposcopy. When the cervical cytology smear is abnormal, further colposcopy is needed to determine whether there is a lesion. If necessary, some tissue needs to be taken for pathological examination to provide a basis for the next operation.

2. Virological testing, that is, high-risk testing for human papillomavirus genes, because HPV infection is the main cause of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions.

3. Cervical cytology is the most basic method for early cervical screening and an important step in people's examination. Compared with other detection methods, this detection method has more benefits for patients. Patients will not have pain and damage, and the accuracy of this method is relatively high.

4. Cervical biopsy: If the disease can be seen with the naked eye, single or multiple biopsies are required. If you need to further understand whether there is a lesion in the cervical canal, you need to take a living tissue from the cervical canal.