Beware, Early Sex Can Trigger Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer or cervix is ​​still the second most common cancer disease and causes of death in women in Indonesia. GLOBOCAN 2018 data shows cervical cancer is the second largest cancer case in Indonesia after breast cancer with an incidence of 23.4 per 100,000 population.

In patients with cervical cancer, about 99.7 percent of laboratory results indicate the presence of human papilloma virus (HPV). When a woman is infected with HPV and her immune system is unable to fight the virus, abnormal cells can develop on the surface of the cervix.

If not treated or detected early, the abnormal cells will develop into precancerous, and gradually become cancerous.

This change to cancer can occur in a period of about 3-20 years, but the average is 10 years as cited data American Cancer Society.

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