REDUCE YOUR CERVICAL CANCER RISK
Up your chances of cervical cancer prevention with these 6 tips
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Quit the Cigs
They've garnered the nickname "cancer sticks" for their part in lung and throat cancers, but smoking cigarettes has an effect on cervical cancer as well. "Once you're infected with HPV [human papillomavirus], smoking more than doubles your risk of not beating the disease on your own," says Mark Einstein, M.D., director of clinical research at Montefiore Medical Center and Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
Smoking won't give you HPV, but suck down more than 10 cigarettes a day and you can double your risk for advanced precancerous cells once you have the disease. Plus, it can speed up the cancerous growth.
Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/reduce-your-cervical-cancer-risk
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