Cervical Cancer

In 2009, more than 500,000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 270,000 died from it worldwide. Of these women, 85 per cent were in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cervical cancer starts in the cervix, the lower part of the uterus (womb) that opens at the top of the vagina. Cancer of the cervix is a slow growing cancer taking more than 10 years to change from its pre-cancerous stage to the full-blown cancer.

According to Dr Brigid Monda, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, in Nairobi the main cause of this curable cancer is certain strains of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which also causes genital warts.

"HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, more common than gonorrhoea or syphilis. It is highly contagious, spreading easily through skin-to-skin genital contact and penetrative sex. Although condoms reduce the risk, they are not completely protective," she says.

The risk factors to getting infected with HPV are mainly sexual. They include sex and first pregnancy at an early age, having many pregnancies, which damage the cervix, multiple sexual partners or women in polygamous marriages; other sexually transmitted infections like Herpes and HIV can also expose one to the infection.

Dr Monda explains that our immune system is able to get rid of HPV in more than 90 per cent of those infected within nine to 15 months. The infection persists in the remaining ten per cent and these are the women at risk of developing cervical cancer.

HPV virus has a special attraction for the cells of the cervix and once the virus is introduced into the genital tract, it inserts itself into the DNA of the dividing cervical cells, altering their coding and causing them to divide abnormally producing defective cells. Over the years, these defective cells become cancerous.

These changes are microscopic and cannot be felt or sensed by the patient until it is too late. That is why early detection through testing for the HPV virus or Pap smear screening and vaccination against HPV infection are very important. "The pre-cancerous stages of cervical cancer have no symptoms. The only way you can protect yourself from this disease is by having your pap smears done regularly. You should not wait for symptoms of cervical cancer because you are most likely be at an advanced stage of the disease and your chances of survival could be greatly reduced," says Dr Monda.

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Warts anytime. The good news here is that even if genital warts recur, they do so in varying persistence. This means that some people will experience several recurrence episodes, while some will only have a few. It seems that our immune system gains some control of the HPV, thus decreasing the chance of genital warts resurfacing. In fact, in most cases, the chances of recurrence happening is completely eliminated within two years.

LegendaryDaniel ?” well the answer is no. Unfortunatly you have to wait and hope that your body will eventually get rid of the virus. Now depending on your immune system is what will determine how long or if it will at all. But the most important thing you should do is if you do have warts (get rid of all of them). And if you have another out break get rid of those too because they are what also carry the HPV. And the wart is contagiouse so keeping a wart on you can spread and become a bigger problem. HPV isnt really an STD but they put it in that category because of the fact that there are types of HPV that only spread to genitals through sexual skin to skin contact. The HPV type that causes genital warts very very rarley would spread places like your hands and feet.

Just try not to get stressed out, and eat right.

Mary Grace C Base from my experience i can say, in term of not have an outbreak since i had removed the sysmtoms. It’s been 2 years now so I’m hoping I’m already clear. I just use wartrol and warts are gone. Practising safe sex though not a foolproof of avoiding infection actually helps bothparty. you can find wartrol at http://www.wartrol.com/?aid=830371

i need sum help and i might have genial warts and i was wondering if genital warts is curable!

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