Prevention of cervical cancer

Prevention of cervical cancer:screening through pap smear is the best

 Medicine has widened with valuable discoveries on , treatment and prevention of  diseases.An important discovery was made in 1920 , on prevention of cervical cancers in females.

Ads by Eonads ' Pap smear' or ' cervical cytology' a simple screening test. This was introduced by Dr.George Papanicolaou in 1920 as he found that malignant tumors of the cervix shed cancerous cells into the vaginal fluid. Then he developed a quick and simple screening test to detect the presence of abnormal cells in a sample obtained through cervical scraping. The term pap smear has been derived according to the name of Dr Papanicolaou. It is possible to find the evidence for the disease years before any visible manifestations are present. The cervical cancer has a wide age incidence , but the commonest age period is that between 45 and 55. It is uncommon in virgin and more common in females who are having many sexual partners or first sexual contact at a younger age.Giving birth to many children , smoking tobacco and acquiring the disease of genital warts due to some type of human papilloma v iruses are among other risk factors.Co infection with Chlamydia trachomatis and Herpes simplex type 2, immunosuppression and certain dietary deficiencies are suggested as other probable co-factors

Cervical cancer bears the second position in the cause of female cancer mortality worldwide with 288 ,000 deaths annually.About 510000 cases of cervical cancer are reported each year with nearly 80% in developing countries.
In Sri Lanka it was estimated that 1544 women are diagnosed with cervical cancers and 840 die from the disease annually. It ranks as the second most frequent cancer among women in Sri Lanka,with the crude incidence rate of 16.4 and mortality of 8.9 in 100,000 population.
Incidence of cervical cancer compared to other cancers in women of all ages in Sri Lanka in 100,000 population.