Cause Cervical Cancer

Cervical Cancer (Cervical Cancer) is a malignant tumor that grows in the neck of the womb / cervix (the lowest part of the uterus attached to the top of the vagina.

Cervical cancer usually affects women aged 35-55 years.
90% of cervical cancers are from squamous cells lining the cervix and the remaining 10% comes from mucus-producing gland cells in the cervical channel leading into the uterus.

CAUSE
Cervical cancer occurs when cervical cells become abnormal and divide uncontrollably.
If the cervical cells continue to divide it will form a mass of tissue called a tumor can be benign or malignant. If the tumor is malignant, then the condition is called cervical cancer.

The cause of abnormalities in cervical cells are not known for certain, but there are some risk factors that influence the occurrence of cervical cancer:

• HPV (human papillomavirus).
  HPV is the virus that causes genital warts (condyloma akuminata) that is transmitted through sexual intercourse. Variant that is very dangerous is HPV types 16, 18, 45 and 56.
• Smoking.
  Tobacco damage the immune system and affect the body's ability to fight HPV infection in the cervix.
• The first sexual relations at an early age.
• Multiple sexual partners.
• Husband / sexual partner at first sexual intercourse under 18 years of age, multiple sexual partners and had married a woman suffering from cervical cancer.
• The use of DES (diethylstilbestrol) in pregnant women to prevent miscarriage (widely used in the year 1940 to 1970).
• Impaired immune system.
• The use of birth control pills.
• Infection of genital herpes or chronic chlamydia infections.
• Type a weak economy (because it is not capable of doing Pap smears on a regular basis).

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