Back pain
Another type of pain associated with late-stage cervical cancer is back pain or flank pain. This usually appears when tumor cells have become aggressive enough to migrate to other tissues and create metastasis in other organs. As they grow, they will start pushing aside every other structure, and when they start compressing the urinary tract, the flow of urine becomes blocked and goes back to the kidney. Back pain is often the result of a condition in the kidney called hydronephrosis, which is basically a kidney that’s filled with excess urine.