Types of cervical cancer
Cervical tumors vary both in the type of cancer cells they are made of and in how they grow and spread.
Depending on the structure of tumor cells, they are distinguished:
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix, also called squamous cell (that is, squamous cell), which occurs in 70% of all cases;
- Mixed cell carcinoma accounts for about 10-15% of cervical cancers;
- Adenocarcinoma of the cervix, occurring in 15-20% of patients.
Regardless of the structure of cancer cells, a tumor can be classified as
- CIN – Cervical intraepithelial carcinoma (i.e. “cervical intraepithelial carcinoma”), which means disease limited to the epithelial layer
- Invasive carcinoma, that is, a tumor that has disrupted the integrity of the basement membrane of the epithelium and has spread beyond the epithelial layer;