The battle against cervical cancer is not successful. Routine screening for cervical cancer, began more than 50 years ago, have helped slash the level times the No. 1 cancer killer of women in the United States Two recently developed vaccine can also protect women against HPV, the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer.
But, each year, new cases are still diagnosed disease, 12,000 and almost 4,300 women died of cancer. Thus, increasingly, researchers are looking for better ways to detect cancer early and recent studies have shown that women who get HPV testing in addition to standard Cancer screen can lower the risk of Cervical disease by as much as three times.
Current guidelines recommend that women aged 30 get a pap smear, which involves scraping and analyze the cells on the cervix, to check for Cervical Cancer every year, and if the normal cell for three consecutive years, and if he has no family history of cervical cancer, then he can wait for the next three years before his next screen. Because HPV sexually transmitted virus, and women aged 21 to 30 were more likely to be sexually active, public health experts suggest that younger women get a pap smear every year. Abnormalities in these cells is a red flag to potential tumor.
Three influential U.S. Cancer Group recommends, however, that women over 30 get HPV test in addition to a pap test, the HPV test, because available since 2003, has proven to be very sensitive to detect the presence of high-risk viruses in the cervix that could go continues to be a cancer. But because the test may also take a lot of HPV infection will resolve on their own, without causing cancer, most physicians in the United States continued to rely on pap smears as a more definitive to screen potential cancer changes.
For its part, the U.S. preventive services Task Force (USPSTF), independent of the Government panel issues cancer screening guidelines, review existing evidence about the risks and benefits of HPV testing and decided it was enough to recommend the use of routine tests in women over 30. For younger women, are more likely to have HPV infections clear on their own, the task force recommended against HPV screen.