{"id":17547,"date":"2025-07-08T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/services\/cancer-care\/cervical-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:06:21","slug":"cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"services","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/cancer-care\/cervical-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancro do colo do \u00fatero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<h2>Southcoast Health: Uma equipa de cuidados para pacientes com cancro do colo do \u00fatero em MA e RI<\/h2>\n<p>Todos os anos, nos Estados Unidos, mais de 12.000 mulheres descobrem que t\u00eam cancro do colo do \u00fatero. Embora fosse a principal causa de morte relacionada com o cancro nas mulheres americanas, a taxa de mortalidade por cancro do colo do \u00fatero diminuiu mais de 50% nos \u00faltimos 40 anos. Este facto deve-se, em grande parte, a um melhor rastreio e \u00e0 descoberta mais precoce de altera\u00e7\u00f5es cancer\u00edgenas.<\/p>\n<p>Na Southcoast Health, temos um programa premiado de <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/cancer-care\/\">equipa oncol\u00f3gica<\/a> que est\u00e1 confiante no tratamento de pacientes com muitos tipos de cancro, incluindo o cancro do colo do \u00fatero em Fall River e Fairhaven, MA. <a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/doctors\/\">Encontrar um especialista<\/a> perto de si hoje para marcar uma consulta.<\/p>\n<h2>O que \u00e9 o cancro do colo do \u00fatero?<\/h2>\n<p>Ter cancro do colo do \u00fatero significa que tem c\u00e9lulas malignas no colo do \u00fatero - o colo de tecido que liga o \u00fatero \u00e0 vagina. Existem tr\u00eas tipos diferentes de cancro do colo do \u00fatero:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carcinoma de c\u00e9lulas escamosas<\/strong> forma-se nas c\u00e9lulas cervicais mais pr\u00f3ximas da vagina. Este tipo \u00e9 respons\u00e1vel por nove em cada 10 cancros do colo do \u00fatero.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adenocarcinoma<\/strong> come\u00e7a nas c\u00e9lulas da gl\u00e2ndula cervical mais pr\u00f3ximas do \u00fatero. Este \u00e9 o segundo tipo mais comum.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carcinoma misto<\/strong> tem carater\u00edsticas de ambos os tipos de cancro do colo do \u00fatero e \u00e9 muito menos comum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Factores de risco e causas<\/h2>\n<p>O cancro do colo do \u00fatero resulta quase sempre de uma infe\u00e7\u00e3o anterior pelo HPV (papilomav\u00edrus humano). Atualmente, as vacinas contra o HPV tornam o cancro do colo do \u00fatero uma doen\u00e7a altamente evit\u00e1vel. No entanto, nem todas as mulheres infectadas com HPV desenvolver\u00e3o cancro do colo do \u00fatero.<\/p>\n<p>Outros factores de risco para o cancro do colo do \u00fatero incluem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hist\u00f3ria familiar de cancro do colo do \u00fatero<\/li>\n<li>Primeira gravidez de termo antes dos 17 anos - o risco \u00e9 duas vezes superior ao das mulheres que esperaram at\u00e9 aos 25 anos<\/li>\n<li>Utiliza\u00e7\u00e3o prolongada de p\u00edlulas contraceptivas - o risco volta a diminuir quando se deixa de tomar a p\u00edlula<\/li>\n<li>Gravidez m\u00faltipla a termo - tr\u00eas ou mais<\/li>\n<li>Fumar - as mulheres que fumam t\u00eam o dobro do risco de desenvolver cancro do colo do \u00fatero<\/li>\n<li>Sistema imunit\u00e1rio suprimido - devido ao VIH ou a medicamentos imunossupressores<\/li>\n<li>Os factores relacionados com o estilo de vida, como o excesso de peso e uma dieta pobre em frutas e legumes, tamb\u00e9m podem aumentar o risco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sintomas do cancro do colo do \u00fatero<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/womens-health\/pap-smear\/\">Rastreio do teste de Papanicolau<\/a> detecta a maioria dos cancros do colo do \u00fatero antes do aparecimento dos sintomas. De facto, os testes de Papanicolau detectam altera\u00e7\u00f5es pr\u00e9-cancerosas muito mais frequentemente do que os verdadeiros cancros do colo do \u00fatero. Isto salva vidas, porque muitas vezes os sintomas s\u00f3 se manifestam quando o cancro j\u00e1 cresceu e invadiu os tecidos circundantes.<\/p>\n<p>Quando ocorrem sintomas de cancro do colo do \u00fatero, os mais comuns s\u00e3o<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hemorragia vaginal anormal - ap\u00f3s rela\u00e7\u00f5es sexuais, ap\u00f3s a menopausa, entre per\u00edodos ou per\u00edodos que s\u00e3o mais longos ou mais pesados do que o habitual<\/li>\n<li>Dor nas rela\u00e7\u00f5es sexuais<\/li>\n<li>Dor p\u00e9lvica<\/li>\n<li>Corrimento vaginal invulgar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Op\u00e7\u00f5es de tratamento do cancro do colo do \u00fatero<\/h2>\n<p>O tratamento depende do est\u00e1dio do cancro do colo do \u00fatero. As suas op\u00e7\u00f5es de tratamento para o cancro do colo do \u00fatero no Southcoast Health podem incluir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/cancer-care\/chemotherapy-drug-therapy\/\">Quimioterapia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/live-southcoast-health.pantheonsite.io\/services\/cancer-care\/radiation-therapy-technology\/\">Radia\u00e7\u00e3o <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/surgery\">Cirurgia <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Terapia contra o cancro orientada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ajud\u00e1-lo-emos a encontrar um plano de tratamento personalizado que seja eficaz para tratar os seus sintomas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Atrav\u00e9s dos Southcoast Health Cancer Centers, fornecemos tratamento fi\u00e1vel para o cancro do colo do \u00fatero em Fall River e Fairhaven, MA, bem como nas \u00e1reas circundantes.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southcoast Health: A Care Team for Patients with Cervical Cancer in MA &amp; RI Each year in the United States, over 12,000 women find out they have cervical cancer. 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