A 21-year-old member asked:
What are the stages of cervical pre-cancer?my mom just diagnosed with stage 5 of 6 but is still pre-cancerous. she might have to have a hysterectomy
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Dr. Colin Kerranswered
Family Medicine 46 years experience
Pap smears: The two common classifications of precancerous lesions of the cervix are the bethesda system, which classifies lesions as low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (lsil), or high-grade (hsil). Of these the hsil is the important one. The other system is the cin system with cin 1 (mild dysplasia), CIN 2 (moderate), cin 3 (severe dysplasia) and ultimately cis (carcinoma in situ).
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Dr. Lisa Lepineanswered
Gynecology 33 years experience
Need more info.: Cervical changes in the cervix that can lead to cervical cancer are due to the human papaillomavirus. When a woman has biopsy confirmed cin 1, this merely means that she has an infection with hpv. Most of the tiem those cells changes will resolve on their own. Cin 2 indicates that the cells have changed further. Cin 3 or cis is true precancer of the cervix and those cells should be removed.
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