Transgress the Cancer Lives
Women diagnosed with cervical cancer must not only fight against this evil, but also against the emotional impact that it causes in their daily lives and in their relationship.
Women diagnosed with cervical cancer must not only fight against this evil, but also against the emotional impact that it causes in their daily lives and in their relationship. Therefore, specialists say, is also receiving psychological support necessary to overcome to achieve this clinical condition.
At present, cervical cancer, whose causative agent is human papilloma virus (HPV), occupies, after breast cancer, the second leading cause of death among Mexican women between 25 and 64 years of age. In the northern region especially breast cancer has been increasing.
According to the Pan American Health Organization, it is estimated that Mexico was diagnosed about 12 thousand new cases per year and 12 deaths occur daily for cervical cancer, being more common in southeastern states.
Depending on the age and the progress that the cancer of the cervix, the woman must undergo from treatments involving surgery, radiation and chemotherapy in the pelvis, to the removal of the womb and ovaries (hysterectomy).
“These facts, plus the lack of knowledge about the disease, resulting in situations that may psychologically damage her and her family,” said Dolores Gallardo Rincón, an oncologist.
One of the most traumatic processes is hysterectomy, which is seen as a mutilation. According to the expert, “the patients stated that they have a feel of how if they were empty inside, complain that your partner no longer looking for them.” It is also possible that menopausal symptoms, state of melancholy and anxiety. Because cervical cancer, the woman’s sexual life is severely disrupted.
According to the specialist, patients fear that if they have sex can hurt after diagnosis, the treatment not work, making the cancer relapse, or that there is any change in sexual function after hysterectomy. In fact, some sufferers experience a decrease or even a mental block sexual desire, that is why we considered it necessary to receive psychological support.
And is that many times women face this complex scenario alone, without support from your partner. The expert acknowledged that sometimes the patients suffer indifference or abandonment by her partner.