Cáncer de cérvix metastásico y gestación: una situación poco frecuente que invita a la reflexión

Background

Coexistence of pregnancy and metastasic cervical cancer in an exceptional situation that will mark, in the presented case, the evolution of the pregnancy.

Case

A 34-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, at 13 weeks’ gestation was taken to our emergency service with menorragia, and was admitted under the suspicion of invasive cervical cancer. Patient?s evolution was complicated by the detection of supraclavicular metastasis and massive pulmonary tromboembolism. The patient decides voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the 17^th week.

Conclusions

This is a very unusual case, not as much the presence of an early stage cervical cancer in a pregnant woman. It reminds us of the need to carry out the mandatory gynecological exploration and smear in the first visit of prenatal care, often omitted in our dayly practice.