With the dawn of a new era of cervical cancer vaccination, Georges Washington University joined forces with global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to deliver a two-day post graduate course on cervical cancer prevention to more than 100 Obstetricians / Gynaecologists and Paediatricians in Lebanon who attended to update their knowledge on the second most common cancer among women.
'Cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection with cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus (HPV),' explained Professor Imad Mufarrij, Clinical Professor of OB/GYN at Georges Washington University and one of the speakers in the course. 'It is a very common virus, 5 out of 10 women will become infected with it at some point in their life. It is not hereditary and can now be prevented.'
'This is why we as physicians have to understand the latest and most effective means to prevent cervical cancer from killing women,' he added. 'This includes early vaccination and regular pap smear screening.'
What is HPV?
HPV is a common virus and all women are at risk of infection with it at some point in their life time. Fifteen virus types are responsible for cervical cancer, 4 of which can be found in almost 80% of cervical cancer cases. These four cancer-causing types are HPV 16, 18, 45 and 31.
A new cervical cancer vaccine from by GSK which protects against these four types has been launched in Lebanon promising strong and long term protection for women and girls starting 10 years of age.
'Considering the novelty of vaccination to protect against cervical cancer, we physicians need to better grasp the details such vaccinations entail and decide on various points including which vaccine to use, what age to vaccinate at, and whether to repeat vaccination after a number of years,' said Mufarrij.
In Lebanon:
Though Cervical Cancer currently does not figure among the Lebanese National Cancer Registry statistics on cancer prevalence in the country, several studies have shown the disease to be a real issue in Lebanon.
4.9 % of women coming for a routine gynecological check up had cervical cancer based on a study published by Mroueh et al. Eur J Gynaecol Oncol. 2002;23 (5):429-32. The study covered 1,026 women, 18-76 years old.
Cervical cancer was common in 10.4% of women based on the study El Saghir et al. J Med Liban. 1998 Jan-Feb;46 (1) :4-11. Moreover, The American University Hospital Tumor Registry shows 7% occurrence among females based on 1983-2003 records.
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