Cervical cancer cases have increased considerably in young women, according to research from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Just a few decades ago, this disease was considered “normal” among women over 40 years old but in recent decades this type of cancer has become more common in women between the ages of 25 and 25, said Gilberto Nicolás Solorza Luna, an academic in the Division of Graduate Studies, in the subspecialty of Gynecologic Oncology, of the Faculty of Medicine (FM) of the UNAM.
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According to the UNAM, both human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer have high global impact; more than 80 percent of the sexually active population could acquire the virus. In 2018, according to data from the Ministry of Health of our country, this condition represented the first cause of death in women from 25 to 34 years of age, and the second (after breast cancer) in those from 35 to 64 years, says the university during the Permanent Gender Seminar in Salud.Al continue, Nicolás Solorza Luna, also a medical oncologist surgeon at the National Institute of Cancerology (INCan), believes that the presence of this condition could be due to the beginning of sexual life at an earlier age and with multiple sexual partners; “that, combined, could be resulting in cervical cancer occurring at those ages.” Women now attend medical care with tumors or more advanced cervical cancer. “The survival of patients depends on the stage or phase, in which they present themselves to treatments,” he says. If detected in time, the disease is curable, says Solorza Luna on the occasion of the “National Day of the Fight against Cervical Cancer” that is commemorated in our country on August 9. The clinical stages of this disease, he explains, range from I (1) to IV (4). For example, in IB, when the tumor is specifically located in the cervix, survival is up to 90 percent; but if you’ve already advanced to phase IIB, that percentage drops to 60 percent. Read more: Marburg virus; the disease that can spread unchecked in the worldSolorza Luna emphasizes that in Mexico cervical cancer occurs, above all, in women with fewer resources. “There is a simple and inexpensive way of diagnosis, the Pap test or cervical cytology for early detection of lesions; but they do not come for lack of money or desire. That’s the tragedy, at such a young age,” the specialist concluded.
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