Do you know that?… Cervical Cancer causes more than 7 Thai females death daily; the number of females has been increasing to 6,000 people a year on the average; symptoms would be shown clearly after the cancer cells step into an incurable stage or distant metastasis stage which is hard for responding to a treatment; however, there is still an opportunity for us to check up for the risk by annual Cervical Cancer screening, when a condition of cancer is detected in early means that there is a high chance for patients to be cured by treatment as well.
Are you having these following symptoms? In fact, these may indicate the risk of “Cervical Cancer”
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- Abnormal menstruation
- Irregular menstruation
- Menstruation after menopause
- Pain during sexual intercourse
- leucorrhea has bad smell
- Urine and stool contain blood
- Pain in the back which also spread to the legs
- Swollen legs
Reduce the chance of HPV infection by vaccine against Cervical Cancer
The cancer mostly caused by “Genetic” which is one of factors that contribute risk factors of cancer in person; however, a major cause of it is virus infection , there is study found that 99.7% of Cervical Cancer patients have HPV (Human Papillomavirus)
According to modern medical evolution, development of Quadrivalent vaccine 4 types (6,11,16,18) which help lower 70 percent chance of Cervical Cancer occurrence; Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that the Cervical Cancer vaccine can prevent a disease caused by 100 percent, a person can receive the vaccine before the infection; it can be given to a girl starts from the age of 9.
Cervical Cancer Screening … for proper treatment
Apart from vaccination, screening for Cervical Cancer is considered essential; there are 2 major approaches for Cervical Cancer screening:
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- Pap smear; this is an internal examination provided together with Cytology; at present, it can quickly given to a patient to know if the Cervical cells have some abnormal changes.
- ThinPrep is cytology screening similar to the Pap smear; what makes them different is ThinPrep provides more details of result; 70-80 percent of disorders can be found which is a reason why most of doctors suggest their patients to receive the ThinPrep.
If you let the disease continue to spread over the body, receiving radiation therapy or chemotherapy may not be enough as patients may require hysterectomy after. Thus, women who have already experienced sex in all age are required to receive Cervical Cancer screening annually since the disease considered curable…however, only if it is detected before the infective stage.
