Understanding and Preventing Cervical Cancer: Advice from Dr Rajni Bagai Cervical cancer is a serious health issue for women, ...

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Understanding and Preventing Cervical Cancer: Advice from Dr Rajni Bagai

[Music] hi I'm Dr Raj bagay consultant gynecologist with n Health AR we're here to talk about cancer cervix today Cancer cervix or cancer of the mouth of the uterus is still a leading cause of death in females in our country sadly this cancer is both preventable and gives excellent results when treated early the root cause of the cancers is now fought to be human papiloma virus infection of the cervix which with super added other risk factors such as poor nutrition early age at marriage multiple sexual partners HIV infection smoking and some others leaks changes in the cervical epithelium to turn into cancer we can prevent this cancer by vaccinating our children against human bapoma virus infection vaccines are available for people from the ages of 9 to 45 we can also catch changes in the cervical epithelium called survical intraepithelial neoplasia which can take 10 to 30 years to actually change into cancer and we do this by doing a cervical cytology popular known as a papsmear test this is a simple test where fluid from the cervix is taken put on a slide and examined by the pathologist this test should be done IDE ideally from the age of 21 to 65 years every 3 years or we can do a paps test from the age of 21 to 29 and then we can do a code test consisting of HPV testing and paps testing every 5 Years From the age of 30 to 65 let's assume that we have not even done this we still need to be aware of the possible signs and symptoms sys of cervical cancer any kind of atypical irregular bleeding from the uterus especially after contact any foul smelling discharge from the vagina vaginal discomfort urinary irritation can be warning signs of a cancer do not take them lightly please get a checkup done when we treat cervical cancer it has been seen that we get excellent results of disease free survival when the cancer is caught early at stage one in later stages the results are not so good so let's be aware of prevention and treatment of survival cancer and let's eradicate deaths from these cancer thank [Music] you

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