A Scary Truth

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer, next to breast cancer. It is much dangerous with only 2 to 3 surviving from the disease for every 4 that survives breast cancer.

The leading cause of this is the human papillomavirus or HPV which is also one of the most common causes of sexually transmitted infections in the world. Woman who have had their first menstruation, those who had several sexual partners, smokers or those regularly exposed to secondary smoke, have 5 children or more and have weak immune system are susceptible to acquiring cervical cancer.

The most dreadful fact about cervical cancer is that it doesn’t have any cure. Prevention is your only protection against it. However according to National Institute of Health (USA) it is highly preventable. They say the correct use of condoms demonstrate a strong protection against low and high-risk type of HPV infection against woman.