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Cervical cancer and your sexual life

Friday, July 19, 2013 0 comments

Cervical cancer and your sexual life

Cervical cancer and your sexual life. You may feel nervous about your sexual life after a diagnosis of cervical cancer, or when you're in a phase of treatment. If you are having chemotherapy, good partner to use a condom. It's just a precaution only, so far there is not enough information about the side effects of chemo are channeled through the vaginal mucus.

It is good when you give pause for a few weeks of recovery. After that sex is safe. Sex can not make you more severe cervical cancer or increase the risk of cancer recurrence. Cervical cancer is not a contagious disease so that your partner does not need to worry.

You may just need a little time to adapt to your current condition. Anxiety will only lower the mood for sex. When this happens, talk openly with your partner and find a way out together. If you both do not find an agreement, it is worth visiting sex therapist or psychologist to consult. If the diagnosis of cervical cancer shows that you are infected with the HPV virus, then your partner should also undergo HPV testing and treatment. So, be carefully with this one of deathly virus in the world.

Precisely what is Cervical Cancer ?

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 0 comments

Precisely what is Cervical Cancer ? Cervical cancer is often a malignancy that occurs on the cervix. Cervical cancer is usually called cervical cancer or cervical cancer that begins from the lining with the cervix. Cervical cancer is formed very slowly, and can occur ages and initially detectable abnormalities in the cells from the cervix, called dysplasia via a Pap Pap test. To comprehend cervical cancer, it helps us to understand the anatomy of any woman's womb first.

Womb female anatomy :

Neck in the womb (cervix) could be the bottom with the uterus (womb). Womb has 2 parts. The top part, the body in the uterus, is where a child grows. The cervix, towards the bottom, connecting the entire body with the uterus towards vagina, generally known as the birth canal.

Female reproductive organs picture :

Womb Cervical Cancer

There's 2 sorts of cervical cancer. The most frequent type (80-90%) are squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and the rest is of type (begins in cells that produce mucus glands). Other kinds (such as melanoma, sarcoma, and lymphoma) usually is situated other places on the body. Your doctor will advise you the types of cervical cancer you've.

The quantity of women get cervical cancer ?

The prevalence of females with cervical cancer in Indonesia is pretty large. Every day, found 40-45 new cases with the quantity of deaths reached 20-25 people. As you move the quantity of women at risk of cervical cancer reached 48 million people. Doctor Laila Nuranna SpOG (K), Head of the Division of Obstetrics Gynecology Oncology Faculty of drugs, University of Indonesia, stated that the majority of cervical cancer cases are detected at a professional stage hospital can be so challenging to treat. "When the cancer is found early, it's easier handling and greater endurance," he explained in the campaign discussion and Cervical Cancer Treatment Efforts in Hotel Lumire Jakarta, Monday, April 12, 2010.

Non-invasive cervical cancer incidence prevalence is about 4x more established than invasive cervical cancers. Management of cervical cancer at a beginning stage / dii, large recovery opportunities.

Cervical cancer will happen in middle-aged women. Many cases are normally found in females who are under 50 years old. This really is rare in young ladies (age 2 decades). Some women are not aware of anytime the elderly, they are still at risk for cervical cancer. That is why it's important for women aged over 40 years to pass through regular Pap smear tests.

Want to Check Cervical Cancer? Recognize Signs It

Monday, May 6, 2013 0 comments

Papanikolaou test or Pap smear so important things that should be done for women to marry or have sexual relations. Is to know the symptoms of the cancer cells.

According to specialists in internal medicine as well as the Head of the Women's Health Center at the RSCM, Junita Indarti, paps mear a secondary prevention after vaccination in overcoming cervical cancer. A Pap smear can be done at any time, except in some specific conditions, because it can trigger an invalid result.

Here are three things you should know before doing pap smears women, such as exposure to Dr. Dr. Junita. Indarti, SpOG (K) in the talk show 'Smart Tips to Avoid The Silent Killer:

Sexual contact
For those of you who want to do the pap first pitcher should not have sex for 48 hours or two about this. This is because it can alter or permit the entry of other bacteria in the uterus that affect cell uptake.

In addition, patients also should not use a special antiseptic soap spray or vital organs. This can leave the rest of the soap into the vagina.

Menstruation
Pap smear should not be performed when menstruating. During menstruation, the state of being inflamed cells and cause abnormal cells in the body closed. This examination can be done between five to 10 days after menstruation.

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Do not try to check a doctor when I'm in a state of discharge. Complaints itching, pain, or heat can affect pap smear results.

Survey Finds High Condom Use by Teens. Good News for Infection-Related Cancers?

Monday, October 4, 2010 0 comments

A new survey conducted by the National Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University has found that well over half of sexually active teens in the United States regularly use condoms when they have intercourse, a percentage much higher than that for sexually active adults. The survey, reported in today's New York Times (link) and set to appear in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, could be good news in the battle against cancers linked to sexually transmitted infections, if the trend in safer sexual practices is robust and continues into the future.

Although not well known by most people, infections play an important role in the development of some cancers. Worldwide, approximately 15 percent of all cancers have been linked to infections. In developing countries, this number reaches almost 25 percent.

Certain infections can either directly or indirectly cause changes that can lead to cancer. This can happen because of the chronic inflammation that some infections cause or by an infectious agent (like a virus) changing the behavior of infected cells. Infections that compromise the immune system (like HIV) also increase cancer risk by making the body less able to defend against infections that can cause cancer.

Not surprisingly, infection-associated cancers are not a health burden borne equally by all. The poor living conditions and inadequate health care experienced by many people worldwide increase the likelihood of cancer resulting from chronic infections.There are at least ten infectious agents that are known to increase the risk of cancer (see table), and several of them are quite common. Yet, in most instances, only a small proportion of those infected actually go on to develop cancer because it takes a unique set of factors along with the infection to turn normal cells cancerous.

Still, these infectious agents have a substantial impact on cancer worldwide. Of particular importance are human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B and C viruses, and Helicobacter pylori. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that is linked to numerous cancers, with cervical cancer being the most important. It’s estimated that almost all cervical cancers are caused by HPV infection. Hepatitis B and C infect the liver and together account for the large majority of liver cancer. Finally, Helicobacter pylori, a bacteria that infects the stomach, has been estimated to cause upwards of 75 percent of all stomach cancers, the second most common cancer worldwide.

The promise of prevention is a bright spot when looking at the reach of infection-associated cancers. To lower their risk, individuals can take concrete steps like avoiding blood exposure (by not sharing needles, for example), practicing safer sex and, for women, getting regular Pap tests (which test for cervical cancer). There is also very strong evidence that vaccinating girls (around age 11 or 12) against HPV can greatly reduce the risk of cervical cancer later in life . Growing use of the hepatitis B vaccine worldwide is expected to result in similar benefits in liver cancer. Advances on vaccines for other agents also offer much hope for prevention.

Preventing Cervical Cancer – the value of the HPV vaccine.

Friday, July 16, 2010 0 comments

Previously, it was estimated that 70% of cervical cancer is caused by just two strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) – strains 16 and 18. Those are the same two strains that the HPV vaccine (sold under the name Gardasil in the US) protects against. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease and the vaccine protects women and girls against it if they are vaccinated before sexual contact with a partner carrying the virus.

New research out of Britain suggests the 70% is an underestimate and closer to 80% of cervical cancer may be caused by strains 16 and 18 – meaning closer to 80% of cervical cancer could be prevented with the vaccine.

Despite the promise of this cancer prevention approach, many in the US remain reluctant to vaccinate themselves, their children or members of their community. Estimates are that only 20-30% of eligible girls in the US are vaccinated (compared to nearly 80% in the UK and Australia). In talking about the power of the vaccine, the most common objection I’ve heard is based on the rumor that the vaccine causes more problems than it prevents. As I dug around the internet on a number of websites of questionable validity, it seems that this MISconception largely stems from a misunderstanding about the differences between correlation and causation.

Most public health and prevention research focuses on distinguishing between correlation and causation so it is not a trivial matter and is one that requires a lot of attention in our research. If I take a pill and get a headache, did the pill cause the headache and thus I should no longer take the pill? Perhaps. But based on so little information, it is equally reasonable to say “perhaps not!” The problem with this “study of me” is that there is no comparison – would I have gotten a headache if I hadn’t taken the pill? This is why we look for quality research to have both a group receiving the pill (or intervention in behavior change research) and a group that doesn’t receive the pill (or intervention). In randomized controlled trials, the population is randomly assigned to one group or the other. In observational studies, such as cohort studies, the researchers identify those who took the pill and those who didn’t and then follow them over time to see what happens. By measuring differences in the two groups, the researchers can not only determine if the pill had the beneficial effects desired AND if there were adverse events. Then they analyze the data to see if the number of benefits (or adverse events) differ between the two groups.

Returning to where we started, the researchers who conducted the trials of the HPV vaccine found the number (or rate) of events didn’t significantly differ between the girls getting the vaccine and those who didn’t get the vaccine, but the girls who got the vaccine were significantly less likely to test positive for HPV, which causes cervical cancer (and is likely also related to other cancers including oropharyngeal cancers), over the course of the study follow-up.