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Cervical cancer: prevention, detection and treatment

Cancer of the cervix is ​​the twelfth most common cancer in women in France.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Cancer of the cervix is ​​the twelfth most common cancer in women in France.

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It is a serious disease that affects the intimacy of women.

The cancer develops gradually, starting from so-called precancerous lesions.

Most are caused by different viruses from the papillomavirus family.

It is important that all women between the ages of 25 and 65 who have not had a smear test for at least 3 years get tested.

How to prevent this cancer?

What signs can alert?

What are the risk factors?

  • Dr. Christine Bergeron,

    medical gynecologist.

    President of the 

    French Colposcopy Society

    .

    President of

    CerbaPath

    in Paris 14th

  • Dr Julia Maruani,

    general secretary of the

    SFCPCV,

    medical gynecologist in Marseille.

    President of the

    College of Medical Gynecology Marseille Provence.

  • Éléonore Piot De Villars,

    expert patient, president

    LYMPHOSPORT

    and member of the

    Imagyn association

  • Pr Cheick Cissé

    , full professor of Universities of Exceptional Class.

    Hospital obstetrician-gynecologist - Head of the Gynecology-Obstetrics Department, President of the Francophone Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FéFOG) Cheikh Anta DIOP University of Dakar.

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