A 47-year-old member asked:
my mom was diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer. how far along is the cancer?
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Dr. Kenneth Murdock answered
Radiation Oncology 53 years experience
Locally advanced: Your mother's cancer is confined to the pelvis, it has not spread to the upper abdomen or the lungs if it is stage iii. It is not amenable to surgery, but could be cured with a combination of radiation and chemotherapy. Good luck to her.
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A member asked:
What precautions should be taken for cervical cancer ?
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Dr. Michael Thompson answered
Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Primary or 2nd: Precautions? Primary precautions to avoid it or secondary after you have it? Cervical cancer is much less common due to pap smears and early detection as well as hpv testing. Hpv vaccines may greatly reduce or eliminate it in a few to several decades depending on vaccine use.
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Spring Valley, NY
A 19-year-old male asked:
How quick does cervical cancer spread?
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Dr. Ed Kaplan answered
Hematology and Oncology 39 years experience
Depends: Early detection is curable and that's why pap smears are so important. The ability to spread depends on a number of features-
is it poorly differentiated?
What stage was it iwhen it was found?
Has it gone to lymph nodes already?
Sorry- wish i could be more helpful.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Can cervical cancer be completely cured?
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Dr. Natarajan Raman answered
Radiation Oncology 33 years experience
Yes: It can be cured almost certainly in the early stages and as the disease stage progresses, the probability of cure decreases.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
How long does it take cin111 to turn into cervical cancer?
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Dr. Natarajan Raman answered
Radiation Oncology 33 years experience
Months to years: Progression to invasive cancer occurs in approximately 1% of cin1, 5% in cin2 and at least 12% in cin3.
Progression to cancer takes a time period of years. Also, evidence suggests that cancer can occur without first detectably progressing through these stages and that a high grade intraepithelial neoplasia can occur without first existing as a lower grade.
Pap smears with your doctor saves lives.
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CA
A 29-year-old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: cervical cancer?
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Dr. Chad Levitt answered
Radiation Oncology 22 years experience
Unregulated growth: Cancer by definition is the growth in size and number in an unregulated manner of a cell line that has developed a mutation. The mutation is passed through the offspring which accumulate more and more mutations. The defining factor is that the cells act immortal as compared to normal cells that have a programmed lifespan. In the cervix this can occur in te cells that line the mucosal surface.
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