Detection and prevention of cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the second most common disease in women in the world, with nearly 500,000 women suffering from cervical cancer every year, more than half of whom die. This is also the most common and fatal cancer in Vietnamese women. This disease has become a burden for women, families and communities.

Cervical cancer is a cancer of the lower part of the uterus or uterus. When the cells in the cervix change abnormally and grow excessively, they will quickly change into cancer. Health experts recommend that women who start having sex will be at risk of contracting HPV, a dangerous virus that is the main cause of cervical cancer.

HPV - Human papilloma virus - is a virus that causes warts, warts and genital warts (warts) in the skin, penis, vagina, anus ., leading to benign dermatitis, or myositis. Genitalia leads to infertility. In more than 100 HPV strains, there are 13 strains leading to cancer.

The process of progressing from viral infection to cancer is usually long-term, from mild, moderate, severe dysplasia to local cancer (the stage of recovery can be completely restored and cured) to invasive cancer (no resilience). Not everyone infected with " toxic " HPV strains also has cervical cancer. This disease usually occurs when there are additional risk factors such as premature sex, multiple partners, poor hygiene, immunodeficiency, birth, abortion or repeated miscarriages . These injuries create HPV conditions are more accessible to cervical basal cells, which are located deep below. After invasion, HPV causes these cells to mutate. Over the years, cells become malignant.

Therefore, according to the advice of doctors, women from 30 to 49 years of age regularly visit medical facilities to examine and detect cervical cancer early.

If cancer is found in the late stages, it is difficult to treat and has a very high risk of death. In Vietnam, this is the second most common disease in women. Statistics in 2005 of the National Cancer Institute showed that an additional 7,000 women were found to have cervical cancer, half of whom died.