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1. Anita Mui passed away after a year of fighting cancer at the age of 40.
1. The onset of the disease
Anita Mui’s family has an inextricable connection with cancer. Her sister Mei Aifang was diagnosed with cervical cancer in the 1990s and died in 2000 after fighting the cancer for ten years.
Just a few years after her sister died of cancer, cancer also found her. Like fate, in December 2002, Anita Mui received a notice from the doctor. The doctor told her that her situation was very bad. Like her sister, she had cervical cancer. This news made her feel like she was struck by lightning, and she immediately called her friend Liu Peiji.
2, give up
"I think I am already very hard." After learning about their condition, Anita Mui and Liu Peiji said that they did not want to suffer anymore because they were already living a very hard life.
Western medicine's advice is to remove the uterus to save life, but Anita Mui has always envied her sister for having a complete family, and she also wants to be a complete woman. So I chose to give up surgical treatment and finally chose traditional Chinese medicine treatment.
3, Farewell
Medical treatment failed to control Anita Mui's condition. In November 2003, Anita Mui, who was seriously ill, held her last concert in her life despite her illness. She said, "I hope to reunite with fans on stage again, and secondly, I hope I can really wear a wedding dress." She chose to marry herself to the stage.
4, Anita Mui, who passed away
after her concert, was admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment. As her condition worsened, she took an overdose of anti-cancer drugs and fell into a coma. On December 30, 2003, cervical cancer caused lung failure, and Anita Mui died due to ineffective treatment.
died one year after suffering from cervical cancer. How terrible is cervical cancer?
2. Cervical cancer is caused by dragging it out! Be careful with these symptoms of body bleeding
Data released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) show that in 2020, there were 6109,700 new cases of cervical cancer in China109,700, and 659,000 death cases. There is no doubt that cervical cancer is still one of the biggest health killers of women today.
When cervical cancer strikes, the body will have a series of abnormal symptoms, and you need to be especially vigilant about these.
1, abnormal leucorrhea
Most cervical cancer patients will have varying degrees of increased vaginal secretion, which is one of the more typical early symptoms. The leucorrhea produced after cervical cancer is mostly like rice water and has no peculiar smell. Later, it will be mixed with blood and have a foul smell.
2, vaginal bleeding
Cervical cancer will cause patients to bleed after sexual intercourse, defecation and gynecological examination. The amount of early bleeding is small and will stop on its own.
3, lower abdominal discomfort
Lower abdominal discomfort, lower abdominal pain, and low back pain are also common symptoms of cervical cancer. Some patients may also experience symptoms of frequent urination and urgency, blood in defecation, and pelvic and lower limb pain.
Regarding the disease of cervical cancer, many people think that it is a "patent" for married women. However, in clinical practice, there are many unmarried women who are diagnosed. Why is this?
3. Why can unmarried people also get cervical cancer? 6 risk factors to stay away from
In fact, being unmarried is not a golden ticket for cervical cancer. In recent years, there are more and more young patients with cervical cancer. Recently, a professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina published a survey in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which was based on authoritative U.S. data from 2001 to 2019. The analysis found that since 1970, the incidence of cervical cancer in the United States has been on a downward trend.
But after 2012, the downward trend stopped and a turning point appeared. The incidence of cervical cancer among women in their early 30s increased by 3% every year.
The increased risk of cancer among young women is likely to be related to these risk factors.
1, hereditary
There is a clear correlation between the occurrence of cervical cancer and heredity, which involves structural changes and abnormal expression of multiple genes, with obvious genetic susceptibility. Women with a family history of cervical cancer have a 1.4 times higher risk of cervical cancer than ordinary women.
2, HPV infection
Cervical cancer is a gynecological malignant tumor with a clear cause and can be prevented. Persistent high-risk HPV infection is the main cause of cervical cancer lesions. 99% of cervical cancers are related to HPV infection. Among all HPV viruses, 16, 18, and 58 are high-risk viruses, among which HPV16 has the highest proportion of patients infected.
3. Premature sexual intercourse
Women who have had sexual intercourse before the age of 16 are more than 50 times more likely to develop cervical cancer than women who have had sexual intercourse after the age of 20.
4, women who have too many sexual partners
women who have multiple sexual partners, or whose sexual partners have sex outside of marriage, etc., will also have an increased risk of cervical cancer.
5, multiple childbirth
women will have their endocrine and nutrition change during childbirth, immune function will also be reduced accordingly. And childbirth will cause trauma to the cervix. These factors will increase the risk of HPV infection and increase the risk of cancer in women.
6. Smoking/second-hand smoke
Smoking is a high-risk factor for cervical cancer and can become a cofactor for the HPV virus. Smoking will significantly increase the nicotine concentration in women's cervical mucus, which will then accumulate these harmful substances in the cervical area and reduce the immunity of the women's cervix. Even women who do not smoke themselves can cause this change if they are exposed to second-hand smoke pollution for a long time. Relevant statistics found that if women smoke passively for ≥5 hours/day, their risk of cervical cancer will increase by 11.8 times.
Cervical cancer is a disease that seriously threatens women’s health. All women should pay attention to avoid some factors that may induce it, and at the same time undergo regular physical examinations. #Headline Creation Challenge#
References:
[1] Zhao Chen, Song Shufang. Research on the epidemiology and etiology of cervical cancer in China[J]. Medical Information, 2021, 34(05):6-8.
[2] "The occurrence of these few Symptoms, you should suspect whether you have cervical cancer". Jilin Health. 2021-08-13
[3] "The incidence of cervical cancer has increased sharply in the "post-80s" generation, experts: multiple sex partners, high miscarriage rates or triggers". Life Times. 2022-11-22
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