Does Abortion Cause Cervical Cancer
Published on Jun 01 2010, in the categories: Causes, cervical cancer
According to The National Center for Health Statistics, abortion is the most frequent surgical operation.
It comes as no surprise that there is a lot of debating on the subject of abortion but this is not an article to support either side of the barricade. Abortion is a choice everybody has to make for themselves and to live with. The only thing that other people can do for those considering the procedure is put out as much information as possible about abortion risks, abortion side-effects, information about support groups and other things to let the person know sometimes the choice is not between having a bay or not but between staying healthy and developing serious disorders.
Sometimes abortion can be done to prevent such disorders or can even occur involuntarily through miscarriage. The majority of women who have had abortion admit to having thought longer about it and to having chosen more responsibly the medic and setting for the procedure if they had known before about the risks involved.
Side effects you are most likely to experience include: intense bleeding, reduced fertility, breast cancer and placental, uteral or cervical infections or rupture. Aside from well known risk like breast cancer or infertility there are other more distantly related disorders like cancer of the cervix. The link between these two is actually still quite controversial.
Some statistics claim that women who have had one abortion are at a 2,3 greater risk of developing cervical cancer. The same studies have also reported a 4,9 increased risk for cancer with women who have had multiple abortions. This is also valid for other types of cancer like that of the ovaries or the liver.
Other specialists, like those from the Guttmatcher institute, claim that there no other relation between abortion and cervical cancer is that cancer incidence is higher with women who went through with the pregnancy and every baby delivered increases the chances of cervical cancer. This does by no means imply somebody could have an abortion to be safer from cervical cancer but just ironically rules out this risk as far as abortions are concerned.
Many medical experts who believe that abortions do lead to cervical cancer feel that this is explained through the damage done to the cervix. The cancer's sole cause might not be the abortion but the mistakes of the doctor doing it. Leaving all moral issues aside the only thing you really have to do if you're considering having an abortion is choosing a good doctor and a proper setting for the operation.
Either way the simple fact that you have come to this crossroad means you are more exposed to cervical cancer. Having an abortion means you have been having unprotected sex and this means a higher chance of being infected with HPV. This is a sexually transmitted virus that is found in 80% of women who develop cervical cancer. Your best chance against the cancer is to be well informed before making any decision, whether it is having unprotected sex or undergoing abortion.
It comes as no surprise that there is a lot of debating on the subject of abortion but this is not an article to support either side of the barricade. Abortion is a choice everybody has to make for themselves and to live with. The only thing that other people can do for those considering the procedure is put out as much information as possible about abortion risks, abortion side-effects, information about support groups and other things to let the person know sometimes the choice is not between having a bay or not but between staying healthy and developing serious disorders.
Sometimes abortion can be done to prevent such disorders or can even occur involuntarily through miscarriage. The majority of women who have had abortion admit to having thought longer about it and to having chosen more responsibly the medic and setting for the procedure if they had known before about the risks involved.
Side effects you are most likely to experience include: intense bleeding, reduced fertility, breast cancer and placental, uteral or cervical infections or rupture. Aside from well known risk like breast cancer or infertility there are other more distantly related disorders like cancer of the cervix. The link between these two is actually still quite controversial.
Some statistics claim that women who have had one abortion are at a 2,3 greater risk of developing cervical cancer. The same studies have also reported a 4,9 increased risk for cancer with women who have had multiple abortions. This is also valid for other types of cancer like that of the ovaries or the liver.
Other specialists, like those from the Guttmatcher institute, claim that there no other relation between abortion and cervical cancer is that cancer incidence is higher with women who went through with the pregnancy and every baby delivered increases the chances of cervical cancer. This does by no means imply somebody could have an abortion to be safer from cervical cancer but just ironically rules out this risk as far as abortions are concerned.
Many medical experts who believe that abortions do lead to cervical cancer feel that this is explained through the damage done to the cervix. The cancer's sole cause might not be the abortion but the mistakes of the doctor doing it. Leaving all moral issues aside the only thing you really have to do if you're considering having an abortion is choosing a good doctor and a proper setting for the operation.
Either way the simple fact that you have come to this crossroad means you are more exposed to cervical cancer. Having an abortion means you have been having unprotected sex and this means a higher chance of being infected with HPV. This is a sexually transmitted virus that is found in 80% of women who develop cervical cancer. Your best chance against the cancer is to be well informed before making any decision, whether it is having unprotected sex or undergoing abortion.
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