Assessment of women s status of knowledge regarding cervical cancer in different communities and the role of cervical health literacy in the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer

Cancer Diagnostics Conference & Expo

June 13-15, 2016 Rome, Italy

Sumeyya Azam

First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, China

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Cancer Sci Ther

Abstract :

Cervical cancer is one of the most prevalent and deadly female cancers worldwide and is especially common in developing countries. Various surveys have been conducted in the recent years that revealed various insights into the knowledge, perceptions and practices of the different communities regarding cervical cancer. Studies clearly indicated that women in different communities especially in lower resource settings have limited knowledge about cervical cancer, it�s link with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), prevention and even less or not at all familiar with screening and HPV vaccine. That lack of awareness may result in poor utilization of HPV vaccine and screening services, even when these are available. The prevention of cervical cancer needs a number of factors to be effectively in place like the awareness of cervical cancer etiology, barriers including intrapersonal, interpersonal and institutional barriers to assessing health care need to be removed, knowledge about the fact that HPV vaccination prevents most of the cervical cancer and screening can detect precancerous lesions which can be mitigated by treatment. Therefore, there is a major need to develop educational intervention programs to address HPV vaccine safety concerns and educate the community by targeting the risk population on risk factors for cervical cancer and practices related to its prevention and early detection. Improvement of cervical health literacy level is a major step towards the prevention and early detection of this dreadful disease.

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