The issue of getting cervical cancer warm lately. How not, in Indonesia, every hour a woman died of cervical cancer. No wonder Cervical Cancer Women’s Care (PPKS, which was under Indonesian Cancer Foundation) feel the need to further increase awareness about this deadly disease. Even PPKS a free pap smear program for 2000 women in Greater Jakarta.
Every woman has a risk for cervical cancer, regardless of social conditions, economic, status, and age. Cervical cancer cases is very high, due to lack of awareness of women to do early detection.
”They might feel scared, or feel they have no symptoms of cervical cancer and just wait, so now known to have advanced stage,’’said Chief II, Dr. Mellisa S YKI Luwia, SpBP
Ignorance is usually caused by cervical cancer did not show specific symptoms. As already entered an advanced stage, sufferers must undergo a series of treatment is not cheap. In fact, from many cases, women are generally affected in the productive age (either housewives or working).
As an illustration only, the cost of medication and therapy or pre-cancerous cervical cancer (including surgery or hysterectomy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, colposcopy, and biopsy) will spend approximately USD 60 million. That’s not including medical expenses after the treatment, and costs for routine consultations after the escape from cancer. Meanwhile, the costs required for the prevention of cervical cancer by early detection (secondary prevention) is to perform a pap smear or VIA (visual inspection with acetic acid) on a regular basis. If you have this disease, certain people with medical expenses fallen so much, and this often caused a burden to the patient or his family.
Hence”extension program is expected to be more awareness of women to immediately take action to prevent cervical cancer. Because every woman at risk of cervical cancer, whereas cervical cancer is preventable,”explained Dr. Mellisa.
To find out if we have the seeds of cervical cancer, pap smear is necessary more than once (once a year). In the first pap smear viruses that invade the uterus may not yet seen. After the second examination it is (next year, RED) just obvious. Therefore, routine pap smear examination should be done every year. In addition to the pap smear, cervical cancer can be prevented by vaccination which is now more affordable price.
How about you, whether you are undergoing routine Pap smears? You can just visit your gynecologist in practice for this examination.