240 thousand women die every year from cervical cancer, which is called the plague of the age among women.
SO WHAT IS "CERTIFICATE CANCER"?
Uterus It occurs when cancer cells grow uncontrollably in the mouth and can be fatal if diagnosis and treatment are delayed; It is a disease that can only be "prevented with early diagnosis and treatment"!
WHAT CAUSES CERTIFICATE CANCER?
1) HPV
HPV is a sexually transmitted virus with nearly 300 types. Cervical cancer occurs as a result of long-standing, persistent, high-risk HPV infection. Most people with an active sexual life are infected.
Most HPV infections do not cause symptoms and may not progress to cervical cancer. 13 HPV types are high risk and have been found to cause cervical cancer
. In Turkey; HPV 16 and 18 are the 2 most common high-risk HPV types.
Early diagnosis with PAP Smear test and HPV DNA test reduces the risk of cervical cancer.
2) Women who have not received the HPV vaccine
3) Women who have been diagnosed with HPV
4) More than one woman who has an increased risk of HPV infection women with sexual partners
For example; If any partner in a couple has sexual intercourse with multiple partners, both partners in the couple are at risk of HPV infection.
5) Those who have not had regular Pap Smears for precancerous lesions, have abnormal Pap Smear results, or have cancer women with a history of previous diagnosis of cervical cell changes
6)Women who smoke
7)Women who had their first sexual intercourse at an early age
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
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Bleeding between menstruation,
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Abnormal vaginal bleeding, such as bleeding after sexual intercourse or post-menopausal bleeding,
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Vaginal discharge that is watery, pink, pale and persistent,
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Menstrual periods that bleed more than normal and last longer.
HOW TO PREVENT?
Preventing cervical cancer caused by HPV viruses can only be done It is possible with the vaccine.
Cervical cancer vaccine?
- For both of these vaccines, if possible, before sexual intercourse, for girls and boys aged 11-12. their children; Even if sexual intercourse is involved, girls and women aged 9-26 can be vaccinated in three doses without an HPV test. It has also been shown to have the same effect when given to women up to the age of 43.
- Both vaccines must be administered three doses intramuscularly (in the arm or hip) to be effective. The quadruple vaccine should be repeated in the 2nd and 6th months after the first dose of the vaccine. If it is a double vaccine, it should be repeated in the 1st and 6th months after the first dose.
- It should not be started in pregnant women. If pregnancy occurs after the first dose, you should start from scratch after pregnancy. If pregnancy occurs after two doses, the third dose can be safely administered during breastfeeding, starting from the 6th week after birth. If the vaccine was administered without knowing that she was pregnant, there is no need to terminate the pregnancy; No increase in congenital defects has been shown.
- It can be administered safely during breastfeeding.
- In light of today's information, a booster (repeat dose) is not required.
- These vaccines are live or dead. Since they do not contain viruses, they cannot cause HPV infection, HPV-related cancer or death as side effects. Only simple side effects that are present in all vaccines, such as redness, pain and swelling due to the vaccination site, are observed.
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