Cervical cancer awareness and its corelates among young females at a tertiary care center: A cross sectional study

Volume 20 No 9 (2022)

Dani A, Pusdekar Y, Deshmukh V

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2022.20.9.NQ44214

Abstract

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in low and middle-income countries, owing to chronic infection with an extremely common family of Human Papilloma Virus. Despite screening and primary preventive efforts, cervical cancer is detected at advanced stages, causing death. It's important to assess young women's knowledge of cervical cancer symptoms and signs and the barriers that prevent them from reporting them

Keywords

Cervical cancer;Warning signs;barriers; Awareness; HPV

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