An Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Adetola Olatunji, has warned girls and ladies to shun early sexual intercourse and having multiple sex partners to avert the risks of developing deadly cervical cancer.
Delivering the institution’s 91st inaugural lecture titled; “Female Reproductive Structure and Function: Bane of Women in the Developing Countries,” he said immunisation against the virus before the female genital tract is exposed to it could prevent the development of cervical cancer. According to him, “cervical screening” is quite cheap as such screening cost only N500 at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.He lamented that despite being preventable, cases of cervical cancer in Nigeria are presented for treatment in advanced stages when little success could be achieved.
He also advised that the definitive treatment of uterine fibroids is by surgical removal of the fibroid nodules – myomectomy for young ones that still need to have babies or outright removal of the whole uterus in women that have concluded child bearing.
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