Comedians such as Gulda Radner and Madeleine Kahn, Oscar-winning actresses Loretta Young and Sandy Dennis, singers Laura Nero and Dina Shore, Cassandra Harris, wife of actor Pierce Brosnan, Jessica Tandy, wife of Ella Grasso, former Connecticut governor, and Martinita's wife. Core Luther King Scott King died of cervical cancer. It's not just celebrities, politicians, or movie stars who have cervical cancer. One in 55 American women is at risk for cervical cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 22,000 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed. More than 16,000 women will die because the symptoms are often fine, and their doctor did not recognize the symptoms anytime soon. It is the leading cause of death from gynecological diseases and the fifth leading cause of death from cancer in women.
Silent and unrecognizable, this cancer often spreads from the ovary or beyond the ovary to the abdominal cavity, or in the last stage, to other parts of the body such as the liver or lungs. Family doctors often fail to properly diagnose the "silent killer" until it is too late. Last August, researchers at the University of California, Davis, reported that 40 percent of women reported their symptoms to their doctors until one year before they were properly diagnosed. A British survey found that 75% of family doctors believe that symptoms occur only in advanced stages of cancer. By the time women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, 40 to 50 percent of patients are at an advanced stage, with little chance of survival.
Less than half of the women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will live five years. About 10 to 14 percent live up to five years after their diagnosis. Their choices are limited, mainly to different types of chemotherapy drugs or new methods of drug delivery. The general public is often unaware of the side effects of cervical cancer patients during chemotherapy. In mid-March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration criticized Ally Lilly's Jamzar's protective profile for ovarian cancer patients, saying the study of patients taking the drug increased survival by 2.8 months. It was not enough to remove the toxicity. Anemia, neutropenia (blood disorder), and thrombocytopenia (lack of platelets in the blood). The first line of treatment currently used for ovarian cancer patients includes cisplatin, with associated side effects such as nerve, kidney, and/or ear damage, carboplatin (side effects: in the arms and/or legs). Nerve damage, joint pain, and/or thrombocytopenia), Paclitaxel (neurotoxicity), or Melphalan, with side effects including irreversible bone marrow failure, bone marrow suppression
A woman with cervical cancer has to undergo surgery first, then chemotherapy. The recent widespread press is announcing a breakthrough in the treatment of ovarian cancer, intra-abdominal or intraperitoneal chemotherapy, simply: more chemotherapy. "Belly Bath", as it is nicknamed by some television reporters, has been highly praised because the treatment can prolong life by about "16" months with "regular" chemotherapy. The results were first published in December 2005 in the famous New England Journal of Medicine. Most of the news failed to report that only 40% of women who were treated with abdominal baths were able to complete all six cycles. Why? Therapy depends on the intake of Paclitaxel and Cisplatin (see side effects in the previous paragraph). According to Dr. Robert Edwards, research director for Maggie-Women's Gynecological Cancer in Pittsburgh, "many women do not feel well enough to work on the abdomen (therapy) for some time." Some patients, such as Cindy Paclins of Marshall (Pennsylvania), have described the treatment as "severe."
You must be logged in to post a comment.