cervical cancer

Easy Ways to Prevent Cervical cancer

Cervical cancer or cervical disease is one of the most experienced women. In Indonesia, a woman was expected to die from cancer every hour.

WHO data also mentioned, the number of patients with cervical cancer in Indonesia is the largest in the world. Each year, more than 15 thousand detected cervical cancer in Indonesia with about 8,000 cases of which were fatal.

Is called cervical cancer because the cancer occurs in the vagina and cervix of the uterus of women. Virus causes cervical cancer is HPV (human papillomavirus) or human papilloma virus.

HPV cause warts in men and women, including genital warts in part, called condyloma akuminatum. Of the hundreds of types of HPV, only a few that can cause cancer. 

So, can cervical cancer be prevented?

Specialist Obstetrics and Gynecology Dardiri Indrawati said, cervical cancer can be prevented by early prevention efforts. One is not having sex with men who often have multiple sexual partners.

The second way is by not having sex at an early age. When you are married or sexually active, women are obliged to maintain a healthy body, a routine pap smear, and quitting smoking, he said.

Another thing that can be done, still he says, are increase the consumption of vegetables that are dark green and yellow because these foods contain lots of beta carotene, vitamin C, and E are potent cancer ward