2023-06-05 18:40:00
Just like pink October for breast cancer, or even blue March for colorectal cancer, green June is a month to raise awareness in the fight once morest cervical cancer.
Martinique is one of the only departments where the number of cervical cancers is higher than in France. This cancer arises from the presence of HPV, the Human Papillomavirus, a virus that affects 80% of women in the first year following their first sexual intercourse. The development of this virus can last 15 to 20 years before the cancer really breaks out.
Prevent and raise awareness
To limit the risk of infection, two complementary means exist: the cervical cancer screening smear, every 3 years for women aged 25 to 30 and every 5 years, from 30 to 65 years old, as well as anti-HPV vaccination for young girls and young boys from 11 years old.
It is therefore necessary to prevent and sensitize the population to this issue of vaccination from an early age. To do this, the GIP PROM (public interest group, regional oncology platform of Martinique) in collaboration with the municipality of Gros-Morne went to meet this population of 10,000 inhabitants.
For Guy-Albert Rufin-Duhamel, this prevention and awareness-raising approach is necessary:
It was interesting for us and also at the request of the municipality to work on how we might help them to be able to make the fight once morest cancer a reality at home. They joined us in a systematic way, with a lot of enthusiasm in the plan to fight once morest cancer, which means that we help them, whether in terms of prevention, in terms of access to screenings as well.
The population of Gros Morne being very attached to the pharmacopoeia and somewhat resistant to vaccination in general, it was also a question of raising their awareness on this point.
We are also working on vaccination, which is a real subject because I believe that vaccination once morest HPV is an important and capital vaccination. It makes it possible to avoid cancer which is cancer of the cervix, but not only.
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