Initial symptoms of cervical cancer?

Update Date: 2023-05-19 Source: Network

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Some old people always feel pain in their left shoulder. Sometimes they can't lift their arms, and the affected shoulder is still numb. They have been treated according to cervical spondylosis, but they didn't get better after taking many drugs. Until they came to the spinal neurosurgery department of a hospital and had an MRI scan, they were diagnosed with cervical cancer. Initial symptoms of cervical cancer? Let's talk about it

Initial symptoms of cervical cancer?

In patients with malignant cervical cancer, local pain is usually gradual. The first is neck and shoulder pain, especially in patients with metastatic tumor. It may be caused by the tumor invading the nerve root, which is often the first symptom. At the beginning, it is mild, showing intermittent dull pain, which is not easy to attract the attention of patients, but the pain rapidly develops into persistent severe pain, which seriously affects the mental state of patients.

Secondly, the compression of nerves and blood vessels, especially the chance of malignant tumor, local vascular tension. Due to the invasion of the tumor into the spinal canal, whether benign or malignant, can compress the spinal cord, spinal cord symptoms and signs, lower limb paraplegia or incomplete paralysis.

In patients with benign cervical cancer or tumor like lesions, they often seek medical treatment because of the mass found in the neck. Sometimes a mass is palpable in the back of the neck. The pain symptoms were mild or no pain at all. Some patients due to neck trauma, doctors give film inadvertently found cervical cancer (or tumor like lesions).

matters needing attention

Don't lift too heavy things, and don't have emergency braking during driving, which may cause acute injury to the cervical spine. Whether it is winter or summer, we must pay attention to keep the neck warm, can not let the neck suffer the invasion of cold, especially in the morning or night bath process, ensure that the neck is not cold stimulation is very important.