What can you do to help prevent cervical cancer?
- Avoid having a lot of different sexual partners
- To reduce your risk, your partner should also have as few partners as possible
- Use latex condoms every time you have sex, especially if you or your partner have had many partners in the past
- Have regular gynecology checkups, with a pap smear, after the age of 21. Once you begin to have sex
- Women with a transplant should have a pap smear every year
- If you have abnormal vaginal discharge, bleeding between periods or with sex, or painful intercourse, see your doctor as soon as possible
- Don't smoke
- Get the human papilloma virus vaccine to the onset of sexual activity
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