Bleeding 3.5 years after treatment it locally advanced cervical cancer

[HarleyQuinn82]

Hope everyone is well?!

Anyone on here experience bleeding and acute pelvic and back pain years after treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer(chemo, radiation, brachytherapy) and it not be a recurrence? Currently waiting for an urgent mri 😟

[Perido]

I'm also about 3.5 years post cervical cancer treatment which included a radical hysterectomy + Chemo-radio + brachy. I've had bleeding from my rectum, vagina and urethra - trust me to score a hat trick 😬. I have ongoing occasional rectal bleeding which has been diagnosed as anal fissures - had these prior to my cancer diagnosis but they are much more prone to bleeding since my cancer treatment. A year or 2 ago I had a one off incident of vaginal bleeding which I was informed was due to neo blood vessels (a by product of radiotherapy it seems) which are fragile and prone to bleeding - I was advised to use a vaginal moisturiser regularly which seems to help. I recently had a urethral bleed exacerbated by insertion of a catheter tube (long story) and was diagnosed with atrophic vulvovaginitis - which means that area is thin and fragile and prone to bleeding - prescribed with a topical oestrogen cream to thicken the skin. I had a CT scan a couple of months back and there was no evidence of disease cancer-wise. It's very scary to get bleeding in circumstances such as ours; I do hope all goes well for you.

[HarleyQuinn82]

Thank you for your reply snd for sharing your experiences. Definitely scary. Waiting for an mri, had 6 period type bleeds in last 10 days but but had one for 4 days now so hoping it was just one of those things due to radiation damage 🤞