My friend was diagnosed with mild pre cancerous changes to her cervix...?
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as far as i know, shes a healthy woman, but could she take some vitamins to boost her immune system, and if so, which vitamins?
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Usually a pap is done a few months later to see if the cells have returned to normal. Inflammation can show on the test as a class 2 yet it can return to a class 1 within a few weeks. They don't worry until it is a class3 or higher. Cancers are actually class 4,5. Many women have a class 2 result after birth that goes back to normal within a couple of months. It just means there is some inflammation of the cervix. You can also have a class 2 close to your period or during in infection. It isn't a major crisis nor does it necessarily mean anything is wrong.
If her cells have already started to change, vitamins really won't help. And I have never heard of someone's immune system kicking out cancerous cells...again, once they have already changed the body's own immune system can't fight them. The 2nd pap is likely to confirm the presence of the cells (ie, determine the previous pap wasn't contaminated). If it confirms diagnosis, she will probably have a LEEP procedure...this is done in the office and is relatively painless, just a little uncomfortable. I know because I've had the samething. That will take care of these cells and she'll be fine. The pre-cancerous cells do not by any means indicate she will get cancer. She should, however, get tested for HPV as this is the most common cause of cervical cancer.
This is fairly common and is called cervical dysplasia. It can be treated by cryotherapy(freezing of the cells) once and never return. Vitamin C is known to help the immune system.
Folic Acid...it helps regenerate cell growth...that's what my gyno prescribed to me when i had the same thing...you can get it at a lower dosage without a prescription though in the vitamin section of your drugstore...
it's pretty common these days to have an abnormal pap.
She may just have some abnormal cells that grew. It is nothing to stress about until the next set of tests. Depending on her age her doctor may also suggest the HPV shot series that helps eliminate the HPV virus. If the next set of tests come back that she has precancer cells on her cervics her doctor may do one of 2 things. Cryofreeze, which freeses the cells sort of like removing a wart. Or he may do a cervics slice, which takes a slice of her cervics to test for further abmornalities of the cervics. Both can be very painful. I went through 2 years of having precancer cells in my cervics and was finally cleared for almost a year now. If your friend needs any help or advice tell her to contact me.
They do work, at least Nobel Prize winner thinks so. 3 - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. 13 The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. (If you find this useful, copy it and give it to a friend. Somebody got to Yahoo and they delete this as soon as they find it) Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. 14 Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. 15 He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. 16 Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.
I have had this. It is not that uncommon. It is almost always caused by the virus called HPV. A LARGE percentage of sexually active women have HPV..like 90%. Most of the time they are NOT syptomatic. My cervical dysplasia was removed viz cryocauterization. It wasn't painful at all. AND, it does take several yrs to develop into full blown cancer...that is why it is usally caught so early by regular PAPs.
low grade cervical displaysia is not cancer, or even pre-cancer. follow paps are all that is required now, a leep may be in her future.
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