What Can Be Done About Cervical Cancer?

Startling statistics were recently revealed Australia when it was stated in a university survey conducted by a professor that the use of condoms for practicing safe sex seems to be declining in young adults falling into the age groups of 16 to 26. This is of course an alarming feature in modern times when so many good treatments are available.

Thanks to medical science we have come a far way but the one elusive illness that is still a huge problem for doctors worldwide is the treatment of cancer. And it so happens that there is a sexually transmitted disease that is indirectly responsible for one of these cancers. I am talking of course about cervical cancer in women.

There is a virus called HPV that also causes genital wart infections and it has now been proven by medical science that HPV infection can ultimately be the cause of  lethal cervical cancer in adult females. Cancers are treated in many ways including surgery and then of course there are radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments, but these often do more harm than good. This is because they damage the cancers cells as well as the human cells.

So medical science took a step back and very cleverly developed a vaccine against the Human Papilloma Virus. This vaccine is extremely effective and can be given to young girls as young as twelve years old already. So the idea is to protect them from any contact with HPV long before they are even exposed to it.

Logically then, if they are protected against HPV infection then they will also be protected to a large degree against the development of cervical cancer, because the HPV virus has been found to be responsible for this cancer as well. And of course there is no reason why males should not receive the vaccine at an early age as well. This would prevent them from being infected with HPV and then pass it on to some other female partners who might not have been vaccinated.

But of course then there are some of us who were not lucky enough to be vaccinated against HPV yet, primarily because the vaccine has only been developed recently. These folks are now infected with HPV and genital warts. But there is also a treatment to remedy this illness and it is a natural homeopathic remedy that is available freely without a prescription.

Medical science has therefore made some serious progress in this area of sexually transmitted diseases. Not only are we able to treat genital warts caused by HPV infection, but we can now also prevent HPV infection with a vaccine. And so ultimately it is perfectly true to say that cervical cancer can now be prevented in all women.