Coloscopy and cervical cancer?!
Question:
Coloscopy and cervical cancer?
after having 2 consecutive pap tests in a period of 6 months, my pap came out negative/normal; but after undergoing coloscopy exam (bec i am hpv high risk), the gyneacologist saw 2 areas she did a biopsy on. Does this mean there is a possibility of cervical cancer too? even when the 2 previous pap tests came out negative? Do all areas that turn white during a coloscopy means cancer cells?
Answers:
The biopsy tells your doctor how much tissues is involved.. It is a better diagnostic tool than our Pap that often misses abnormal cell changes.
Areas that turn white during a colposcopy are generally changes due to HPV. The areas that turn white usually indicate pre-cancer cell changes not cervical cancer. Screening allows our doctor to treat abnormal or pre-cancer changes before they progress to a cancer.
Here is what your doctor is seeing during your colposcopy. Lots of differences between benign changes, LSIL, HSIL and cancer.
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Colonoscopy is a test that allows your doctor to look at the interior lining of your large intestine (rectum and colon) through a thin, flexible viewing instrument called a colonoscope
Colposcopy or colcoscopy is a medical diagnostic procedure to examine an illuminated, magnified view of the cervix, the tissue of the vagina and vulva
Petzcat seems a bit confused on the difference between a colposcopy and a colonoscopy.