Dr. Signes has recently joined the medical team of clinical Glorieta, she has a degree in medicine in the 2012 year from the University of Valencia and completed her training as a specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe de Valencia in 2017. The Doctor gives us some clues to prevent uterine cancer.
Doctor, why is it important for women to go to the gynecologist to perform cervical cancer prevention?
Cervical cancer is the third most frequent neoplasm in women in the world. The screening of healthy women by cervical cytology, applied properly and systematically, has managed to reduce the incidence and mortality of 70-80% in an XNUMX-XNUMX%.
This benefit is due to the detection of asymptomatic premalignant lesions whose diagnosis and treatment prevents their progression to invasive carcinoma.
What is the cause of cervical cancer?
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the causative agent in almost all cases of neck cancer, as well as its precursor lesions. However, for the development of this type of cancer it is necessary not only infection by the virus, but its persistence.
In this way, more than 90% of HPV infections are transient and, therefore, irrelevant from the point of view of developing a tumor. During the first years of sexual life a high frequency of infection is observed, although most of these infections are temporary and disappear spontaneously. Women over 30 years of age are less likely to be infected, but in a higher percentage the infections are persistent, so there may be a greater risk of precursor lesions of this disease.
