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Vulvar cancer:-
Introduction:-
Forms of cancer of the vagina in the vagina, and the region surrounding the external genital organs of a woman. Vulva includes the following sections:

** Lips - lips around the opening of the vagina
** Clitoris - a small block of tissue at the opening of the vagina
** Bartholin's glands - small and mucus-producing glands on either side of the vaginal opening

Signs and symptoms:-
In most cases, cancer of the vagina affects young children. Less often, cancer occurs in the clitoris or in Bartholin's glands. More than 90 percent of cancers of the vulva is a type of skin cancer as they begin in squamous cells, and the most important type of cells in the skin. And usually develop slowly over many years in its initial form are not cancerous.

Vulva cancer is relatively rare, and usually affects Caucasian women over the age of 60 years, despite the fact that the situation can occur in younger women, and those of all races. Other risks to the situation include the following:

• Smoking

• Taking steroids or other drugs that weaken the immune system

• Genital warts caused by HPV, sexually transmitted human virus (human papillomavirus)

In most cases, cancer of the vagina causes symptoms early. Therefore, if you experience any of the symptoms of the condition, you must visit a doctor immediately. Common symptoms of cancer of the vagina may include the following:

• Vagina itching that lasts for more than one month

• And the reduction or sore on the vagina that will not heal

• A lump or mass in the vagina

• Unjustified vagina pain

• Bleeding from the vagina which is different from your usual monthly bleeding

• Burning in the region, which continue even after your doctor may treat a burn

• Any change in size, color or texture of meat or a mole in the vaginal area

Diagnosis:-

It is important to note that if early detection and treatment, cancer of the vagina has a high cure rate. Therefore, it is essential that you visit the doctor for a specific diagnosis. In reaching a diagnosis, your doctor will first review the medical history, ask about any symptoms experienced by conducting thorough physical exam. The following tests also may be performed:

* Pelvic Exam :-
This test involves a sense of the vagina and the uterus and ovaries, fallopian tubes, bladder and rectum to find any defect in form or size.
* Ultrasound :-
This test uses high-frequency sound waves to create images of organs and systems within the body. These waves, which can not be heard by humans, creating a pattern of echoes of the so-called ultrasound. Healthy tissues, fluid-filled cysts and tumors look different on this picture.
* The system tomography (CT) scan :-
This is the method of photography in the body of a thin beam of X-ray is about the patient. Detect small measure the amount of x-rays make it through the patient or particular area of interest. Computer analyzes the data to build a cross-sectional images. These images can be stored, displayed on a screen or printed on film. In addition, it can build individual images or "slices" the establishment of three-dimensional models of devices.
* X-ray :-
This provides the X-ray images of organs and structures within the chest, including the heart, lungs and airways leading to them, and great vessels, and the upper part of the thin sheet of muscle below the lungs.
* Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) :-
This is a non-invasive painless using powerful magnets and radio waves to build up a picture of the body. Any imaging plane, or "pieces" than expected, stored in a computer, or printed on film. MRI can easily be performed through clothing and bones.
* Biopsy :-
This test involves removing a small piece of tissue for microscopic examination and / or culture, often to help the doctor make the diagnosis.

Treatment:-

When diagnosed and treated early, curable cancer of the vagina in more than 90 percent of the cases. Treatment for cancer of the vagina usually involves surgery, radiation therapy and in some cases, and chemotherapy. We have a team of specialists, cancer, radiation specialists and surgeons work together to design the most effective treatment plan for you.

* Surgery :-
In many cases, cancer of the vagina is treated with surgery. Type of surgery depends on the size, depth and spread of cancer. One commonly used form of so-called surgery and wide local excision, which is cancer and some normal tissue around the cancer is removed. Another approach is called surgical radical excision, which removes the cancer and a larger portion of surrounding tissue, and in some cases, the lymph nodes. After these procedures, you may need to be patient skin from another part of the body added, or grafted, and plastic surgery for an artificial vagina or vulva. In addition, in some cases, you may have used laser surgery, which uses a narrow beam of light to remove cancer cells.
* Radiation therapy :-
Radiation therapy uses x-rays or other high-energy rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body, called external beam radiation therapy. Another form or radiation therapy, called internal radiation, and works through the development of materials that produce radiation, called radioisotopes through thin plastic tubes in the area where cancer cells are found. May be the use of radiation alone, before or after surgery.
* Chemotherapy :-
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Drugs may be given by mouth, or they may be placed inside the body by injection into a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy is called systemic treatment because the drug enters the bloodstream, and travels through the body, and can kill cancer cells throughout the body.