Cervical cancer also called is a type of cancer that 99.7% is caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) oncogenic, which attacks the cervix. This cancer can present with vaginal bleeding but symptoms of this cancer did not appear until the cancer entered the stadium even further. In developing countries, widespread use of cervical observation programs reduce the incidence of invasive cervical cancer by 50% or more. Most studies have found that infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for all cases of cervical cancer. Treatment including surgery in early stages, and chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy in end-stage disease.
One of the traces of HPV is a wart virus attack. Wart is a skin rash in the shape bulging like cauliflower. HPV virus itself is a lot of that stuff (more than 100 kinds) who were each given a number to distinguish one type to another. 60 types of which cause skin warts are not dangerous. The rest is a mucosal HPV types, which only attack the mucus membranes such as those found at the mouth of the esophagus, the tip of the penis, vagina, cervix, and rectum. Mucosal type is also called genital HPV, because that is the area most often sexually assaulted. There is cause warts in the vagina or penis, commonly called the disease "chicken's comb", is HPV types 6 and 11, but this will not become cancerous.
Which can cause cancer is genital HPV types 16, 18, 31, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, and 58. More than 70% of cervical cancers caused by HPV types 16 and 18. In addition to causing cervical cancer, HPV can also cause cancer of the anus, vagina, vulva, penis, and even esophageal cancer.
The virus is transmitted primarily through sexual contact, including anal sex, oral sex, sex and hand. Most of them are infected by the age of 15-30 years, is within a period of four years after first sexual intercourse. People infected with genital HPV usually does not know he was infected, because these infections cause no symptoms at all (except that posed "a chicken's comb"), and immediately attacked the immune system so that the virus is dead or weak - so it is not active.
Until now, human papilloma virus infection can not be cured, but a good immune system can cure 90% of them within 2 years. The rest remain active, or present but not active. This dormant virus can still be infectious to others, active again at any time (if the decreased endurance), or alter the cervical cells become pre-cancerous cells, which many years later can become cancerous.
Prevention
The best way to prevent human papilloma virus infection (also to prevent attacks of all kinds of other viruses) is to maintain the condition of the body to remain healthy and fit with a balanced lifestyle: stop stress, avoid pollution, consumption of nutritious and balanced diet, enough exercise, getting enough rest .
In addition, prevention of the HPV virus can be done with skrinning and vaccination programs. In developed countries, this type of cancer cases has begun to decline thanks to the program of early detection through pap smears. HPV vaccine will be given to women ages 10 to 55 years by injection three times, namely in the months to zero, one, and six. From this research, proved that the immune response to work two times higher in young women aged 10 to 14 years than those aged 15 to 25 years. Vaccination should be given to the girls who had never been sexual activity. People who have never committed sexual activity likely to have been infected with HPV. If that's not infect virus type 6, 11, 16, and 18, then the vaccination is still no good.
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