Cervix uteri cancer: traditional and new approaches to the problem

In the past decades, the number of patients with cervix uteri cancer has increased in geometric progression worldwide. The WHO confirms this and sounds the alarm - this abnormality has recently begun affecting young women of the earliest reproductive age. This information makes the medical community look more intently at this problem and search for new ways of improving treatment. A study of the pathogenetic role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the occurrence of this disease, early diagnosis, current treatment options, and prevention absolutely yield certain results - five-year survival rates have reached a rather high level. But unfortunately there is a category of patients whom we cannot help. To update a program for population screening and that for vaccination of HPV-infected women are herewith promising areas.

cervix uteri cancer, heredity, squamous cell carcinoma, screening