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Malignant vulvar tumors can develop in the inner edges of the labia majora, labia minora, clitoris or in the Bartholin glands. [9] Research in preventing vulvar cancers includes investigations into the use of oncogenes , tumor suppressor genes, drug treatments, surgery , radiation therapy , chemotherapy , and lymph node mapping.
In early vulvar cancer, primary radiotherapy to the groin results in less morbidity but may be linked with a higher risk of groin recurrence and reduced survival compared to surgery. [34] Chemotherapy is not usually used as primary treatment but may be used in advanced cases with spread to the bones, liver or lungs.
Vaginal cancer is an extraordinarily rare form of cancer that develops in the tissue of the vagina. [1] Primary vaginal cancer originates from the vaginal tissue – most frequently squamous cell carcinoma, but primary vaginal adenocarcinoma, sarcoma, and melanoma have also been reported [2] – while secondary vaginal cancer involves the metastasis of a cancer that originated in a different ...
A vestibulectomy is a gynecological surgical procedure that can be used to treat vulvar pain, specifically in cases of provoked vestibulodynia. Vestibulodynia (vulvar vestibulitis) is a chronic pain syndrome that is a subtype of localized vulvodynia [1] where chronic pain and irritation is present in the vulval vestibule, which is near the entrance of the vagina. [2]
Bartholin gland carcinoma is a type of cancer of the vulva arising in the Bartholin gland. [2] It typically presents with a painless mass at one side of the vaginal opening in a female of middle-age and older, and can appear similar to a Bartholin cyst . [ 2 ]
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In a review of 264 women diagnosed with anogenital papillary hidradenomas, patients ranged in age from 25 to 82 years (median: 49 years); in 25 cases where the information was available, the tumors had been present for 2–120 months (median: 12 months) with 13 patients reporting their tumor's presence for less than 1 year before diagnosis.
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