Liputan6.com, Jakarta Cervical cancer is one of the cancers that can be prevented by vaccination. Therefore, according to the Brahmin obstetrician, gynecological oncologist Askandar Tjokroprawiro, this cancer should not have occurred.
If this happens, it needs to be treated immediately without having to wait for the symptoms to get worse. The reason is, any delay in treatment will affect the patient’s survival. The measure applied to cancer is prognosis, the five-year survival rate.
“All cancers always describe the cure rate. “For example, in stage one cervical cancer the five-year survival rate reaches 90 percent,” said Brahmin in answer to a question Health Liputan6.com in the World Cancer Day Media Briefing with the Ministry of Health, Thursday (22/2/2024).
A survival rate of 90 percent means that if 100 people have stage one cervical cancer, then five years later 90 people are still alive.
“That describes the cancer prognosis like that. “Automatically, the higher the stage, the later it is, the lower the prognosis, aka the lower the survival rate.”
For example, for stage one cervical cancer the survival rate is 90 percent, while for stage four cervical cancer the survival rate drops to 20 percent.
2024-02-22 13:00:15
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