Cervical Cancer Metastasis. Locally recurrent cervical cancer usually presents with vaginal symptoms ie discharge bleeding dyspareunia or pain. If cervical cancer spreads cancer cells can spread from the cervix to other parts of the body.
This spread is called metastasis. For example doctors might use cancer fighting drugs surgery chemotherapy and radiation therapy to treat metastatic cervical cancer. A woman receives a metastatic cervical cancer diagnosis when she has cancer that started in the cervix but has spread to affected other parts of the body.
We report a 73 year old woman who presented with ocular symptoms found to be secondary to orbital metastasis of cervical cancer.
A woman receives a metastatic cervical cancer diagnosis when she has cancer that started in the cervix but has spread to affected other parts of the body. This spread is called metastasis. For example doctors might use cancer fighting drugs surgery chemotherapy and radiation therapy to treat metastatic cervical cancer. Common sites of metastatic disease seen in cervical cancer most often include the lungs and liver.