Cervical cancer, like other cancers, loses the opportunity for surgery once it reaches the stage of distant metastasis and systemic spread. The best scenario is discovering it as carcinoma in situ. Cervical carcinoma in situ means that when discovered, the cancer cells are only present in the cervical epithelial tissue, referred to as stage zero.
The probability of timely detection of carcinoma in situ is very low clinically. More often, when patients seek consultation, they are already at stage one, two, three, or beyond. Besides, lymphatic metastasis can easily occur in the early development stage of cervical cancer. Therefore, clinical doctors advocate for patients to have regular check-ups to detect cancer cells early.
When cancer cells are discovered, clinical doctors must handle them correctly and scientifically, either through timely surgery or palliative radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Surgery is certainly not the only option.
