How many women die a year of breast cancer and cervical cancer in the UK?
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at
1:42 am
Italianciccia asked:
I’m writing an article on the cervical cancer jab for A level and i need some statistics on how many women die of it compared to different cancers, i’m also writing about how necessary/unnecessary the jab really is so any opinions and statistics would be great thanks
I’m writing an article on the cervical cancer jab for A level and i need some statistics on how many women die of it compared to different cancers, i’m also writing about how necessary/unnecessary the jab really is so any opinions and statistics would be great thanks
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Honestly, I don’t think a statistical comparison here is beneficial. Here’s why:
Women who get regular pap smears rarely get cervical cancer (though you could decrease that number even more if they were offered annually and begining at 18 or 20.) In developing countries, cervical cancer is often a top killer of women.
Here are some stats:…
Here’s what you should know about cervical cancer: It used to be a top killer of women, but the pap smear can detect cervical abnormalities in the precancer stage. Still, there is no magic way to prevent cervical cancer. The way the prevent it is by removing pieces of your cervix. This will not kill you, but it can cause fertiliy problems and sexual disfunction. Also, this does nothing to cure the HPV, so cervical abnormaities may return. If they keep coming back, women have no choice but to have a hysterectomy.
And for certain cervical abnormalities, the recommended treatment is alway hysterectomy. Even when the abnormalities aren’t yet invasive cancer.
If you have access to medical care, cervical abnormalities do not usually threaten you life, but they can have an enormous impact on your life.
It’s actually a little secret of gynecology that they routinely remove pieces of women’s cervixes. It happens every single day to lots of women. It’s so common, I seriously doubt you will be able to find any stats on it. How many LLETZ’s are performed in the UK each year? No one is keeping that stat. This is pretty ridiculous, I think. Can you imagine if it was men routinely having pieces of their reproductive organs removed? There would be outrage. But since it’s cervixes, no one seems to care.
And here’s the breast cancer stat page in case you want it.…
Also, I think there are problems with the way these stats are kept which makes the comparison more difficlut. Typcally, ductal carcinoma in situ (Stage 0 breast cancer) counts as a cancer diagnosis. Cervical carcinoma in situ or cervical adenocarcinoma in situ (Stage 0 cervical cancer) do not count in the cervical cancer stats. Why? I’n not really sure. I guess it’s so doctors can show how the pap smear is “preventing” cervical cancer. If cervical carcinoma in situ counted as a cervical cancer diagnosis, there would be BY FAR more cervical cancers than breast cancers.
Good luck with your article!