Survey on patients undergoing treatments for cervical, endometrial and ovarian cancer
Abstract
Cancer is a disease with an abnormal cell growth and it can invade or spread from one organ to
another. There are some common symptoms noticed for cancer like abnormal bleeding, lumps,
weight loss and change in bowel movement. Using tobacco is one of the major causes for cancer
and that causes 22% of cancer. In addition to that, poor diet, obesity, alcohol consumption may
cause 10% of cancer. Moreover, 15% of cancers occur due to some viruses like Helicobacter
pylori, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human papillomavirus infection, Epstein–Barr virus and human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Genetic defects can also cause cancers and the chances are 5-
10%. Screening test is most common and initial test for detection of cancer. Some treatments are
followed to control cancer as most of the time this disease cannot be cured. Radiotherapy,
chemotherapy, surgery, hormone therapy, lesser therapy, immunotherapy and some oral
medicines are used for cancer treatment. In 2018, 18.1 million new cancer cases and 9.6 million
cancer deaths were stated. In the same year worldwide an estimated 570,000 cases and 311,000
deaths occur by cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is now the fourth most diagnosed cancer and
fourth leading cause of death among women in whole world. Ovarian cancer is the seventh most
commonly diagnosed cancer and the eighth most common cause of death from cancer over the
world. Ovarian cancer has only 30% of cure rate. For this survey data was collected from 70
patients with different gynecological cancer and then statistical analyzing was done. The result of
this survey showed 94.29% patients are married and 61.43% patients are in between age 35-55.
Both this findings from the patients selected for this survey indicated that the sexually active
women have higher chance to have any of the gynecological cancer. The result of this survey
also showed that 61.43% women are affected by passive smoking. Another finding showed 60%
of patients used to take contraceptive pills for long time. This result implied that taking
contraceptive pills for long time could be a cause of any of these gynecological cancers. There
are no patients from this survey who took vaccines against cervical cancer and none took any
psychological help for fast recovery. Almost 50% of the patients believed in homeopathy and herbal treatments, which actually did not work on these diseases. The survey shows that side
effects are most prominently expressed in patients above the age of 56 years and patients with
stage-3 and stage-4 cancer. Therefore, the findings from this survey indicates that married and
middle-aged women should be more careful to their health and avoid contraceptive pills, passive
smoking and take vaccines for preventing and controlling the disease in a better way.