Is it better to have teratoma by surgery or minimally invasive surgery?

If you suffer from teratoma, you need to undergo surgical treatment in time. The best time for surgery is 3-7 days after the menstruation stops. However, it is best to go to a professional hospital for teratoma surgery for laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery. With minimally invasive surgery, the wound is very small and the body recovers faster. After the operation, you must pay attention to the cleanliness of the area around the wound, change the dressing regularly, and be careful of wound infection.

Once a teratoma is diagnosed, early surgical resection must be performed to avoid the malignant transformation of benign teratoma due to delayed surgery. It can also prevent tumor infection, rupture, bleeding and complications. The key point of teratoma surgery is to completely remove the tumor. For ovarian and testicular tumors, one ovary or one testis is removed. For sacrococcygeal teratoma, it is emphasized that the coccyx must be removed at the same time to avoid residual pluripotent cells that may cause tumor recurrence.

The treatment principle of malignant teratoma is combined adjuvant therapy. Conventional chemotherapy is used for 1.5 to 2 years after surgical resection. Radiotherapy is only used for cases of malignant teratoma with clear microscopic or macroscopic residues. The radiotherapy dose is preferably 25Gy for microscopic residues and 35Gy for macroscopic residues. For those who have undergone complete surgical resection, chemotherapy has been advocated as the main therapy in recent years, and radiotherapy has been used with caution to avoid delayed damage to the reproductive organs and bone development during radiotherapy.

Women should have regular gynecological examinations. Now some units only organize married women to participate in gynecological examinations, but in fact all women of childbearing age should participate in gynecological examinations, especially B-ultrasound examinations, to nip tumors in the bud or in the early stages. Mothers should often touch their children's bellies. Teenagers, women and middle-aged and elderly women should also often touch their abdomens to see if there are any lumps. Once a lump is discovered, no matter how big or small it is or whether it is painful, you should seek medical attention immediately. A better way to touch is: wake up in the morning, empty your bladder, lie flat, bend your legs slightly, and touch the lower abdomen from one side to the other. If a lump is found to be a hard foreign body, it is suspected to be a tumor. Once a teratoma is discovered, doctors recommend removal.

It is possible to become pregnant normally after ovarian teratoma surgery, and it does not cause much harm to the body. As long as the teratoma does not exceed the navel, laparoscopic surgery is recommended, which has small incisions and quick recovery.

Generally speaking, the more teratomas are discovered during childbearing years, the lower the incidence of malignancy. Currently, the survival rate of comprehensive treatment after complete resection of malignant ovarian teratoma can reach 97%, and the survival rate of those with residual or recurrent tumors during surgery can be further improved.