Types of Gynecological Tumors
It is a system to classify the severity of the cancer that includes data about its size, its spread to other organs or cell types that form. Criteria are used as the extension of the FIGO (International Federation of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians). This procedure is necessary to perform a physical examination, radiologic and biopsy studies.
The different stages where you can find ovarian cancer are:
* Stage I: the tumor affects only one or two ovaries.
* Stage II: Cancer is not limited to the ovaries, but remains within an area bounded by the pelvis (uterus, bladder or rectum).
* Stage III: Cancer has spread to the peritoneum (lining of the abdomen) and / or lymph nodes.
* Stage IV: distant metastases, or in other organs.
In cancer of the uterus may distinguish the following phases:
* Stage I: Cancer of the uterus that remains only in the central part of this, ie that has not spread to the neck.
* Stage II: Tumor invades cervix.
* Stage III: Cancer is found in areas outside the uterus, but within the area of the pelvis (although not in the bladder or rectum). For example in the lymph nodes.
* Stage IV: The bladder and rectum are affected. This stage also includes metastases in other parts of the body.
Cervix (cervical)
* Stage IA: tumor limited to the uterus microscopically.
* Stage IB: The tumor can be seen with the naked eye and confined to the uterus.
* Stage II: The cancer has spread beyond the uterus but does not reach the pelvic wall. This stage also includes tumors that occupy less than one third of the vagina.
* Stage III: Here are the tumors that have invaded the pelvic wall and / or less than one third of the vagina and those who have caused the kidney failure.
* Stage IVA: The cancer reaches the bladder or rectum or extends beyond the pelvis.
* Stage IVB: Distant metastasis in other parts of the body.