Cervical cancer hit immense number of women around the world and still is increasing. Do you have basic or little knowledge on cervical cancer? Tackling with this topic would help women’s health to create preventions or actions to prevent risks of having cervical cancer. Do you know that cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death in women? That’s why women don’t want to hear this from their doctors. Another is that only 60 percent diagnosed every year with cervical cancer survived.
There are factors that triggered cervical cancer. Doctors have discovered these risk factors as causes for the disease.
- Early sexual engagement.
- History of Multiple sexual partners.
- Relationship with a high-risk partner, including partners with STDs or a history of multiple partners.
- Smoking.
- Women with lowered immune function.
- Women with a history of vaginal squamous dysplasia (precancer of the vagina).
- Women with prior Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
There are symptoms of cervical cancer but most women will not have initial symptom, that’s why cervical cancer is difficult to detect without frequent screening. Symptoms that are commonly experienced by women with cervical cancer are bleeding after sexual intercourse, abnormal bleeding of the vagina, vaginal discharge that is watery or full of mucous and has strong odor and lower back or pelvic pain that branch out down the leg.
Good news for women's health, vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer has been developed with 100 percent effectiveness. The new vaccine is called Gardasil developed by Merck and Co. This vaccine could be used also for boys also to prevent boys from spreading the virus to their partners. The vaccine actually is used before partners become sexually active.
Always be reminded with these valuable facts and the assurance for preventing cervical cancer will be 100 percent.
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