Tuesday, January 3, 2012

You must know : Cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is cancer that attack women and the number of sufferers increased in recent years. Of all cancer patients in Indonesia, a third were cervical cancer patients. Cancer is indeed a woman who scary killer. Obtaining information about this cancer can help more women avoid one of the deadliest diseases.

Cervical cancer or cervical cancer (also called cervical cancer) is one of the diseases most common cancer for women. Every one hour, one woman died in Indonesia due to cervical cancer or cervical cancer. The fact is that millions of women in the world are infected with HPV, which is considered the disease through sexual intercourse most common in the world.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this infection is a major risk factor for cervical cancer. Every year, hundreds of thousands of undiagnosed cases of HPV in the world and thousands of women die from cervical cancer, caused by the infection. Given the fact that this horrible, then the various measures of prevention and treatment have been made to cope with cervical cancer or cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer is caused by infection with HPV (human papillomavirus) or human papilloma virus. HPV cause warts in men and women, including genital warts, called condyloma akuminatum. Only a few of the hundreds of variants of HPV that can cause cancer. Cervical cancer or cervical cancer can occur if there is an infection that does not heal for a long time. In contrast, most HPV infections will go away, overcome by the immune system.