Cervical Cancer
Cervical Cancer 2
Abstract
Thousands of women are dieing each year from cervical caner. However, these are senseless deaths can be prevented from simple detection and protection. The cervix is a very important part of a woman's body that helps her to produce life. Why then do many women treat their bodies so horribly by neglect? Education about the cause, effects, and treatments of cervical cancer will change this gross neglect. Awareness is the key to good health.
Studies have shown that women who exhibit certain behaviors have increased risk for cervical cancer. Every potential mother, daughter, aunt should know how to care for their bodies properly. This simple knowledge can save their lives. If cervical cancer increases to enormous rates as many diseases do, it will stop the growth of population. There can be no future without children, and their can be no children if there are no healthy women to give birth to them.
Cervical Cancer 3
The cervix is the lower, narrow part of the uterus (womb). The uterus, a hollow, pear-shaped organ, is located in a woman's lower abdomen, between the bladder and the rectum. The cervix forms a canal that opens into the vagina, which leads to the outside of the body. Like all other organs of the body, the cervix is made up of many types of cells. Normally, cells divide to produce more cells only when the body needs them. This orderly process helps keep us healthy. If cells keep dividing when new cells are not needed, a mass of tissue forms. This mass of extra tissue, called a growth or tumor, can be benign or malignant. Benign tumors are not cancer. They can usually be removed and, in most cases, they do not come back. Most important, cells from benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body. Polyps, cysts, and genital warts are types of benign growths of the cervix. Malignant tumors are cancer. Cancer cells can invade and damage tissues and organs near the tumor....
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