Multiple Sexual Partners : high risk for Uterine cervical Cancer. There’s a vaccine to minimize it.

Posted on March 12, 2008 
Filed Under Cancer, Popular Health

DUGEMCancer of the uterine cervix until now is the leading cancer among women in the third world and developing countries, inclusive Indonesia.

Most of the type of this deadly cancer is Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), and after that adenocarcinoma or adenosquamous carcinoma and other rare types.

Lately experts have found a new vaccine that could protect women from this lethal disease. The vaccine was made against human papilloma virus (HPV) infection, that we believe is the number one cause of SCC.

In order to get full protections against HPV, women should take three times vaccination which will be injected. This vaccination costs you about 1 million Indonesian money (IDR) for each time you are vaccinated. Thus three times will cost 3 million IDR.

With that high cost, not every woman could afford, especially the lower economic society. While uterine cervical cancer prone to be majority in that class of people.

High risk are : prostitutes, multiple sexual partners, smoking, low socio-economic status and low educated women.

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