Hi.. My mother who is of 52 yrs of age have been getting heavly bleeding post menopause. She underwent a test where the tissues are scrapped from the cervix. the attending doctor suggested it might be cervical cancer. The test results are pending and would be available only after a week. Can you suggest what can be done now? What better way we can prepare for diagnosis or teh treatment
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. Cervical cancer is common in postmenopausal women. And heavy bleeding is the initial symptom of cervical cancer.  The most confirmatory diagnostic test is cervical biopsy. But this is contraindicated inactive heavy bleeding. So you have to wait for report of scraping. You can get done CT of lower abdomen to rule out metastases in abdominal lymph nodes. Or get done PET scan to detect hot spots. Better to consult oncologist and discuss all these.