Giving birth too early is more likely to cause cervical cancer? Three things to do to prevent it

Cervical cancer is a common gynecological cancer and also a relatively preventable gynecological cancer. We know that prevention is the best treatment. How can we effectively prevent cervical cancer?

High-risk groups for cervical cancer: women who have sexual intercourse too early, women with too many sexual partners, women who give birth too early or have given birth more than three times, and women infected with HPV.

How to prevent cervical cancer?

The prevention of cervical cancer is mainly based on high-risk factors and high-risk groups. From a professional point of view, the prevention of cervical cancer is divided into three levels: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.

The so-called primary prevention is the prevention of the cause of the disease. This aspect has made rapid progress, especially the emergence of cervical cancer vaccines. Cervical cancer vaccines have been used abroad for more than ten years and are widely used in most countries around the world. Due to various reasons, China started late. However, some foreign vaccines have entered the Chinese market, and some domestic companies are also researching their own vaccines.

Secondary prevention refers to cervical cancer screening. Simply put, there are generally two methods for cervical cancer screening. One is the cervical exfoliated cytology test (mainly liquid-based cytology), and the other is the HPV virus test. If conditions permit, both tests can be performed at the same time. If economic conditions or other conditions are not met, you can choose one of them. In the past, doctors generally recommended cervical cancer screening for married women over 30 years old. Now we recommend that married women, regardless of their age, should be screened once a year, but the guidelines also recommend that if two consecutive screenings are negative. There is no need for annual screening, and screening can be done every three years.

The third level of prevention is early treatment. Through screening, cervical lesions have been found. The onset of cervical cancer is a gradual process. This process is that normal cervical epithelial cells become diseased under the action of HPV pathogenic factors, resulting in CIN, that is, cervical intraepithelial lesions, which are precancerous lesions. If not treated in time, invasive cancer (ie cervical cancer) will form after a period of time. Therefore, there is a process of cervical intraepithelial lesions between normal and cervical cancer. If cervical intraepithelial lesions can be detected and treated early in this process, cervical cancer can be prevented.