A Woman Dies Every Minute Of Cervical Cancer

A woman dies every 10 minute in Africa from cervical cancer, a disease that affects the mouth of the womb. Cervical cancer is one of the commonest cancers in Africa and it can be prevented and cured when noted early.

When the numbers of cells become uncontrollable in the body, it leads to cancer and what one eats sometimes determines if she could get the cancer or not.

A gynaecologist at a Nungua clinic Dr. Promise Emmanuel Sefogah, said this when the National Women’s Supporters Union (NAWSU), as part of activities marking their sixth anniversary, held a health forum for its members in Accra.

He said “of all the cancers affecting women, cervical cancer is number two, after breast cancer”. Cervical cancer is a sexually ,transmitted disease which has killed many women and Dr. Sefogah said that out of every 10 selected women, eight could be positive of the disease, adding that women between the ages of 35 and 55 are at a high risk of getting it.

Symptoms of the cancer include bleeding during sexual intercourse, longer bleeding periods during menstruation, bleeding during the stage of menopause, severe pains in the vagina and lower abdomen, kidney failure and others.