What is Gynecological Oncology?

It is the department of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the female reproductive system.

With the increase in cancer rates in recent years, cancer-related deaths are the most common cause of death after heart diseases in the world.

Gynecological cancers called female cancer:

- Uterine cancer (endometrium)

- Cervical cancer (cervix)

-Ovarian cancer (ovary)

-Tubal cancer (tuba uterina)

- vulva cancer (External genital area)

- Vagina cancer

GENITAL CANCERS AND DESIRE FOR CHILDREN:

Gynecological cancers have become more common before having children due to the increase in the incidence of cancer, the increase in the age of marriage, and women postponing pregnancy to older ages due to their work life. For this reason, fertility preservation in genital cancers has become a research topic today. If cancer is detected at an early stage in childless women, reproductive ability can be preserved by removing or treating the cancerous area with surgery or hormonal treatment, depending on the type of cancer. Surgical treatment is completed after having a child.

Cervical cancer and fertility-preserving surgery, in early-stage cervical cancer, only the cervix is ​​removed and the uterus and vagina are combined.

 

>Approximately 5% of uterine cancer occurs in people under the age of 40. If the patient has a desire to have a child and the disease is at an early stage (has not spread beyond the inner lining of the uterus) and the cell type is not too bad, patients are treated with high-dose hormone therapy and are allowed to become pregnant after the disease is resolved.

Ovarian cancer. and fertility-preserving surgery: Pregnancy can be made possible only by removing the cancerous ovary or cancerous tissue (in borderline ovarian tumors) and preserving the other ovary and uterus.

Such treatments require significant knowledge and experience. . As a result, fertility-sparing approaches and treatments in gynecological cancers can be recommended to women who want to become pregnant in the early stages, if certain criteria are met. Fertility-sparing approaches can be applied to patients by explaining all possibilities and risks to them and obtaining their informed consent. applicable.


 

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