Cervical Cancer and HPV

Posted on | January 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Cervical Cancer and HPV

Margaret Lewin, MD
Medical Director, Cinergy Health
Guest Correspondent

Last year, 11,270 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed and another 1.2 million women will develop dysplasia, a condition which left untreated will turn into cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is a malignancy that develops in tissues of the cervix: the organ which connects the uterus to the vagina. It is preventable, slow-growing (so that it can be detected and cured early in its course), and is nearly always caused by infection from the human papilloma virus (HPV).
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