Diagnosed every year 6,000 new cases of cervical cancer In Spain, and in Aragon, there were 13 deaths from this cause in 2022, according to data from the Spanish Association Against Cancer. Is he fourth most common type of cancer in women throughout the world, affects all age ranges and manifests with symptoms such as bleeding, discomfort or pain in the area.
Unlike other tumors, in this the agent that causes it is identified. Is he human papilloma virus, which appears in more than 90% of cases of cervical cancer, or cervix, says the head of the Gynecological Tumors unit of the Lozano Blesa clinical hospital in Zaragoza, Alfonso Yubero. “We also know other causessuch as sexual transmission, and habits such as smoking”, he explains.
The good thing, adds Yubero, is that there is a vaccine against that virus, which is given to girls when they are 12 years old. And in Aragon, since March 1, boys of this age have also been inoculated.
In addition, in a few months, the Community will take another step in prevention by implement population screening for women aged 25 and over. With these two tools, vaccine and screening, cases should go away, explains the oncologist. This is what has happened, he points out, in countries like Australia.
And for this reason, too, the worst data for this female cancer are in low-income countrieswithout the capacity to implement this type of preventive programs.
