Obesity, cause, treatment and complication

Cervical cancer is the world’s second cancer most suffered by a woman over the age of 15 years.

About 500,000 women in the world are diagnosed with cervical cancer and on average 270,000 died each year. Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs mostly in women.

Regardless of age and background, every woman is at risk for this diseases caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Even cancer is often infecting woman at childbearing age (30 to 50 years). Considering the high risk factors for this disease, women should do  early detection.

Detection of this disease (cervical cancer) can be done with simple. For cervical cancer can be detected by methods of Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA), which is very simple, cheap, convenient, practical, and easy. VIA method is designed for communities far from health facilities. While for urban people, early detection by Pap smear methods are available.

Simple, just by rubbing vinegar on the cervix then observed the changes, precancerous lesions can be detected when a white spot visible. The cost is very cheap. Comfortable, because the procedure is not complicated, does not require preparation, and painless. Practically, that means can be done anywhere, requires no special tools, just a simple bed that is representative, speculum and light. Easy, because it can be done by trained midwives and nurses.

Cervical cancer is one of the major health problems of women in the world, especially in developing countrie, and one of the reasons for the development of cancer is caused by the low coverage of early detection or screening. Based on estimates in 1985 (PATH 2000) only 5% of women in developing countries who receive early detection services compared with 40% of women in developed countries.