In China, for a long period, both doctors and patients regarded cervical diseases with great attention and fear. This was because, during that era, cervical cancer remained highly prevalent with poor prognosis, causing people to react to cervical issues as though hearing about hepatitis, believing most would turn into cancer, hence avoiding the mention was best.
The most common cervical symptom frequently heard about is cervical erosion.
Understanding cervical erosion underwent an extensive period of medical research before being correctly recognized as a physiological phenomenon known as ectropion, rather than a disease. The colloquial term cervical erosion needs to be differentiated to identify whether it is pathological or physiological.
