Contents:
- Medical Video: 😧 Warning Signs And Symptoms Of Cervical Cancer | How to Know If You Have Cervical Cancer
- What are the signs and symptoms of vaginal cancer?
- What causes vaginal cancer?
- What are the treatments for vaginal cancer that can be done?
- Can vaginal cancer be prevented?
Medical Video: 😧 Warning Signs And Symptoms Of Cervical Cancer | How to Know If You Have Cervical Cancer
Have you ever heard of vaginal cancer? Apparently not only the cervix or uterus can get cancer, but miss V can also experience it. Then, what are the signs and symptoms of vaginal cancer? What causes vaginal cancer to occur?
What are the signs and symptoms of vaginal cancer?
Maybe you rarely hear of vaginal cancer, most cancers that occur in women are cervical cancer, uterine cancer, or breast cancer. This type of cancer does tend to occur rarely. this disease is known to be more experienced by women who have entered the age of more than 60 years. Meanwhile, only 15% of cases occur in women less than 40 years old.
This vaginal cancer is characterized by symptoms and features such as the following:
- Vaginal bleeding, usually occurs after sex.
- Bleeding despite experiencing menopause.
- Feel pain and pain during sex
- The vagina produces abnormal vaginal discharge
- Feel sick when urinating
- Experience constipation
- Pain in the pelvis
- There are lumps in the female organs
- The vagina feels itchy
If you experience any of these symptoms, then you should immediately consult a doctor to determine your health condition.
What causes vaginal cancer?
In fact, like other cancers, the disease is also not known with certainty. However, according to experts, there are several risk factors that can make a person experience vaginal cancer, what are the things?
- Women over 60 years old
- Infected with human papilloma virus (HPV) that can be transmitted through sex
- Have a history of abnormal cell growth in the vagina or cervix that is malignant
- Having a mother with a history of using hormonal drugs diethylstilbestrol (DES) when pregnant
- Smoke
What are the treatments for vaginal cancer that can be done?
Treatment is done, will be adjusted to the part of the vagina affected by cancer and the stage of cancer experienced by each patient. The main treatment usually used to treat this disease is:
- Radiation therapy, uses radiation beams to kill cancer cells.
- Chemotherapy, a therapy aimed at killing cancer by being given hard chemical drugs.
- Surgery, sometimes this procedure is done to remove a part of the solid tumor in the vagina.
All of these treatments, usually carried out for a long time and cause various side effects. To find out what side effects can occur when the treatment is done, you should ask your doctor.
Can vaginal cancer be prevented?
Because vaginal cancer has no known exact cause, you cannot prevent this cancer from happening. However, don't worry first, you can still reduce the risk of vaginal cancer, by doing the following:
- Apply a healthy lifestyle. All chronic diseases, you can actually reduce the risk by applying a healthy lifestyle, choosing the right foods and doing regular exercise.
- Keep your vagina clean. Clean the vagina regularly, especially when you are menstruating. The vagina is more susceptible to infection with various types of bacteria, viruses, and fungi when it's menstruating. You can also use special antiseptic fluids for female organs containing povidone iodine, to help prevent infections such as HPV virus infection. Clean only the outside of the vagina and not the vaginal canal.
- Having sex safely. To avoid transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, such as HPV, you should have safe sex by using a condom.
- HPV vaccination. The HPV vaccine is actually done since a 12 year old child, to avoid transmission of HPV. If you want to get it, you just live in the nearest health service and consult a doctor. But unfortunately, this vaccine is still quite expensive.
