Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: Are you protecting your kids?
© 2013 Roy Benaroch, MD
January is cervical cancer awareness month—a time to remind people about this terrible disease, but also to highlight some huge advances in cervical cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment. And it is preventable. Almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by a handful of types of HPV infection, most of which could be prevented by a combination of education about safe sex, and the use of a safe and effective vaccine.
HPV is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world, affecting about 40% of young adults. Most people who’ve picked up HPV don’t know they have it, but they continue to spread it to other people. Sometimes, HPV infection can cause genital warts or cancer, including cervical cancer and other cancers that affect men and women both.
Please protect your kids by talking about sex, setting appropriate expectations, and making sure they get this vaccine.
More info:
HPV vaccines for men
An HPV vaccine win!
CDC’s comprehensive HPV info page—here are answers to just about any question you can think of about HPV diseases, screening, prevention, detection, and treatment.
Tags: cervical cancer, HPV, human papilloma virus, immunizations, vaccines
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February 5, 2013 at 11:39 am
Thank you for the information and support of cancer. I wrote a song about cancer when my sister in law got breast cancer at age 24. I hope you enjoy it and possibly find it helpful. Here is the think. http://youtu.be/GcSJJoUHL_0 thanks again.
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