Having a healthy lifestyle and modifying your risk factors will help prevent you from acquiring the infection (HPV). Safe and healthy sexual practices and lifetime mutual monogamy is like-wise the key, so are quitting smoking and getting vaccinated. Also, cervical cancer has a pre-cancer stage that is only detected through regular screening. Screening methods available [...]
Risk factors for developing cervical cancer include early age of sexual debut, having multiple sexual partners, high number of full-term pregnancies, smoking, long term use of oral contraceptive pills, a weak immune system and presence of other sexually transmitted infections such as Chlamydia or gonorrhea. “Condoms do not necessary for transmission of this disease because [...]
Cervical cancer is caused by a chronic and persistent cancer-causing type of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, which is transmitted sexually. The infection leads to pre-malignant lesions and progresses to cancer. Because it develops over time, cervical cancer is also one of the most preventable types of cancer by a cervical screening and a cervical cancer [...]
Bad News: Cervical Cancer is the Second most common cancer among Filipino women. Good News: it is HIGHLY PREVENTABLE Much has been said about cervical cancer. In the past year all over the world, so many efforts have taken place for the sake of its awareness, advocacy and prevention though various television and radio ads, [...]