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Overview
Best way to reduce the risk of vaginal cancer is to avoid known risk factors and to find and treat any vaginal pre-cancers.
Primary Prevention
Avoid being exposed to HPV
- Having sex at an early age
- Having many sexual partners
- Having a partner who has had many sex partners[1]
- Having sex with uncircumcised males
Delay sex: Waiting to have sex until you are older can help you avoid HPV.
Use condoms: Condoms provide some protection against HPV.
Avoidance of smoking:Clinical survey show no smoking is another important way to reduce the risk of cervical precancer and cancer.
Get vaccinated: Vaccines have been developed that can protect women from HPV infections[2]. The development of a quadrivalent HPV recombinant prophylactic vaccine represents the first time in history that primary prevention of gynaecological cancers is offered to girls and women[2].
Regular gynecological examinations
- Pap test
- Treatment of precancerous abnormalities
References
- ↑ Serrano B, de Sanjosé S, Tous S, Quiros B, Muñoz N, Bosch X, Alemany L (September 2015). "Human papillomavirus genotype attribution for HPVs 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52 and 58 in female anogenital lesions". Eur. J. Cancer. 51 (13): 1732–41. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2015.06.001. PMID 26121913.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Diaz ML (August 2010). "Prevention of cervical, vaginal, and vulval cancers: role of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (6, 11, 16, 18) recombinant vaccine". Int J Womens Health. 1: 119–29. PMC 2971720. PMID 21072282.