Patient's question:
Is candidiasis very harmful?Doctor's answer:
If vaginal candidiasis is not treated promptly, it can develop into more difficult-to-treat conditions such as cervical inflammation, endometritis, and salpingitis. In severe cases, it may progress to cervical erosion. It can even become a significant contributing factor to cervical cancer and endometrial cancer. Functional cysts of the ovary, including follicular cysts, corpus luteum cysts, lutein cysts, inflammatory ovarian cysts, polycystic ovaries, and endometriosis cysts (also known as chocolate cysts of the ovary). Inflammatory ovarian cysts are often caused by inflammation of the fallopian tubes, which frequently affects the ovaries, leading to the formation of inflammatory effusions or purulent accumulations, which then develop into ovarian cysts. To be precise, they should be referred to as inflammatory masses rather than true ovarian cysts.