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We aren’t talking of any other forms of cancer, but cervical cancer and its serious business. Especially, it becomes more so, accounting to the ignorance of the problem. It’s no more a play-thing anymore especially going by the recent statistical findings. It is the second most common type of cancer to have affected the female gender. It was predicted, more say the forecasts of which have been true, that around 10,000 women in the States alone will be diagnosed alone with this type of cancer, of which it was predicted that 4,000 will die from it. This is no thing to be meddled with. Especially, now that the problem has been attributed to multiple sex partners, concerning some very irresponsible sexual behavior.
Cervical cancer is considered an abnormality arising out of the cervix. It is primarily associated with the infection of human papillomavirus. More than 60 types and an assumed number of 200 subtypes of the infection have been traced out till now. However, only fifteen of the Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been identified as high-risk varieties, and an at least 3 types are categorized as having a probability of being high-risk types. A more 12 have been clubbed as low-risk. But the point to be taken into consideration is that Types 18 and 16 are conducive primarily to the cause of 70% of the cervical cancer. Moreover, there is also the possibility that the presence of certain low-type HPVs do not turn into cancer. On the other hand, there are always high-risk varieties that have found to always turn into cancer, and therefore the mere presence of it is a guarantee that you will be afflicted with cancer. Its symptoms have been associated with vaginal bleeding, generally speaking, but it is only at later stages that the symptoms have shown to prop up. Ideally, one can trace the prevalence of the disease with the help of a Pap smear test.
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