Cervical or matrix cancer is associated with the Human Papilloma Virus.

Cervical cancer, or better known in the medical world as cervical cancer of the womb, occurs when the cervix (located in the lower part of the uterus) is damaged or occurs in it an acute infection. Currently, according to the WHO (World Health Organization) cervical cancer is suffered by 6% of women between 35-55 years. One of the most frequent causes of infection is HPV (Human Papillomavirus), which is more and more frequent among young people aged 18-30 years due to their immediate transmission through unprotected sex and the increase in sex at earlier ages.

One aspect of concern to physicians in the field is the difficulty in detecting the symptoms of HPV. Some point out that the most common symptoms can be caused by the appearance of blood spotting between menstruation, or in a period of time outside the days before and during the onset of menstruation, excess vaginal secretion even smelly and with a yellowish color or internal and external vaginal itching. The problem with these symptoms is that they are shared by other ailments such as common infection and/or fungi, and this in some cases confounds the possibility of accurately detecting what type of infection and disease is involved.

Frequently cervical cancer is due to HPV infection

The best option for timely detection if you have HPV infection or the possibility of cervical cancer is to see your doctor at the first symptom, especially if you suspect that after a sexual relationship you may have been infected. In addition, vaccines to prevent HPV have come on the medical market since 2007. The treatment consists of three vaccines that are put in different intervals of time and that to this day can be acquired in the pharmacy. Do not forget that the best way to prevent HPV, cervical cancer or any other sexually transmitted disease is through the use of condoms during the entire process of sexual intercourse.

Causes of HPV Infection

Like other infectious diseases, the causes of infection and causes of cervical cancer and/or HPV can be very diverse and not necessarily related to each other. And people usually thinks that who is most at risk of developing cervical cancer. The most important and common is the one derived from the infection by the papilloma, but also for the following causes:

• Early initiation of sexual intercourse.
• High number of children.
• Menopause after age 52.
• Unhealthy habits, such as excessive consumption of tobacco and/or alcohol.
• Having diabetes with high blood pressure.

Treatment of cervical cancer

There are different types of HPV and cervical cancer treatment to be performed, depending on how the infection is found and where it is located accurately. The specialist doctor, once you explore the affected area, will determine which treatment is most appropriate for that particular case. As a general rule, if the cancer is in the outermost layer of the cervix, the specialist would determine the possibility of operating (with local or general anesthesia, depending on the degree of complexity) and remove only the part infected by the scalpel with a scalpel. cancer of the cervix. If the woman is young and the cervix is not damaged enough, the ovaries are removed and other, less aggressive treatments are used.

Treatment will tend to be as invasive as possible, depending on the state of the cancer

Another most used treatment is radiation therapy (ultraviolet radiation), as long as the cervical cancer has not spread beyond the pelvic region. If the pelvic region is already affected, chemotherapy is used, but in this type of disease it is only effective in 25% of the cases treated, and the side effects (vomiting, weakness/tiredness, hair loss, peeling of the skin) are too strong for the lack of effectiveness of the treatment. In any case, WHO determined, through regular studies conducted in 2014, that the percentage of deaths derived from cervical cancer has been reduced by less than 50%. In most of them, with the aforementioned treatments and above all, detected before it is in a process too advanced and delicate, its cure is relatively fast and effective.