A woman is said to be the light bulb in a family but what happens if she is unable to fulfill her roles and duties as a mother? Can we still say that a family stays happy when there is a lack of mother figure? One of the global health issues that mainly attacks women today is cervical cancer, a type of cancer that occurs in the cervix (a female reproductive organ that connects the lower part of a woman’s uterus to her vagina). Experts said that about 250, 000 women around the globe die of cervical cancer a year caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) which infects nearly 80% sexually active women. HPV infection commonly causes skin or mucous membrane growths (warts) on the different parts of the body. For example, some types of …show more content…
This makes it hard to know when you first became infected. Due to this rising threat and issue, scientists from Cleveland Clinics improvised a new medical innovation which may help women get rid of and be protected against the chance of developing cervical cancers. This is the self-administered HPV Tests. However, the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care ( IQWiG, Germany) analyzed studies that looked into the benefits of HPV tests in cervical cancer screening. They were particularly interested in whether HPV tests can help to detect major changes in mucous membrane cells (called high-grade dysplasia) earlier, whether this leads to an improvement in treatment and whether fewer women get cervical cancer and die as a result. The results of the studies suggested that high-grade dysplasia (an abnormal growth or development of cells, tissue, bone, or an organ) was detected earlier when HPV tests were used rather than Pap tests alone. Pap tests (also called smear tests) have been used in Germany since the 1970s to screen for cervical cancer. This test involves examining cervical cells (doing a cytological