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SUMMARY:January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
DESCRIPTION:Please help me spread Awareness!!!!\n\n\nNearly 4,000 wome
 n in America will die this year from cervical cancer. These cancers ar
 e, largely, preventable, and raising public awareness can save lives. 
 It's why the U.S. Congress has designated January as Cervical Health A
 wareness Month.\n\nCervical cancer is the only cancer known to be prim
 arily caused by a common virus, the Humanpapillomavirus (HPV). In the 
 United States, 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed i
 n 2010 from HPV caused tumors. HPVs are sexually transmitted via skin-
 to-skin contact. Recent research indicates the virus also cause some c
 ases of cancers of the mouth, anus, head and neck in men and women.\n\
 nCervical cancer often is stigmatized as a disease acquired as a resul
 t of promiscuous behavior. While risks of acquiring a high-risk HPV in
 crease with the number of one's sexual partners, persons in longtime m
 onogamous relationships can be infected from a lone sexual encounter t
 hat occurred years, even decades, earlier.\n\nMost women, and men, acq
 uire a HPV infection during their lifetimes. Fortunately, most HPV inf
 ections are benign and disappear spontaneously. Some, however, persist
 .\n\nOf more than 100 known HPVs, only about 15 are high-risk viruses.
  Cervical cancers caused by high-risk HPVs usually develop slowly and 
 may grow, often asymptomatically, for years prior to medical detection
 .\n\nPap test screening is the first line of defense against cervical 
 cancer. Pap tests are recommended for women every other year after the
  age of 21. Regular gynecological Pap tests detect most cell changes d
 ue to HPV long before they become cancer. Early detection of these pre
 cancers can be effectively treated before they become malignant. Unfor
 tunately, four out of five women do not receive their regular Pap Test
 . In 2009 more than half of the women diagnosed with cervical cancer e
 ither never had a Pap or were not screened in the last five years.\n\n
 In recent years, breakthrough vaccines have been developed that protec
 t against the HPV types responsible for an estimated 70% of cervical c
 ancers.\n\nThere is no correlation between the genital human Papilloma
 virus (HPV) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).\n\nThe Nationa
 l Cervical Cancer Coalition (NCCC) founded in 1996, is a grassroots no
 nprofit organization dedicated to serving women with, or at risk for, 
 cervical cancer and HPV disease. For additional information phone Rach
 el Biety, 818.909.3849 and visit our website at www.nccc-online.org.\n
 \nFor more information visit http://eredlands.com/events/january-is-ce
 rvical-cancer
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CATEGORIES:spread, awareness
LOCATION:City of Redlands
WEBSITE:http://www.nccc-online.org
URL:http://www.nccc-online.org
CONTACT:909-557-9749
ORGANIZER;CN="Susie Vasquez-Carrillo":http://eredlands.com/profile/Sus
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