A report of Liga de Lucha contra el Cáncer (Lalcec) (Fight against Cancer League) alerted that uterine cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in women, after that of the breasts.

Meantime, the numbers that the World Health Organization (WHO) manages indicate that in the world 450 thousand women present/display uterine cancer every year and of them, 200 thousand die, being most deaths in developing countries.

The head of Gynecology at Lalcec, Silvina Witis, explained that the pathology "occurs more frequently in young woman who has had many children" and emphasized that "the precocious detection of the pre-malignant injuries is the only way to avoid the arrival at a clinical picture of an uterine cancer".

Prevention: In this sense, Witis indicates that "starting from the moment that a woman begins to maintain sexual relations she must carry out a Papanicolaou cytology every year, throughout her life, to detect alterations" in her uterine neck. The gynecologist insisted on the necessity of that gynecological practice "before the changes that are registered in the uterine neck, the vagina flora and variation in the immunity to virus during the different stages in a woman's life".

She alerted that "a woman who has not undertaken a Papanicolaou during four years can at this point have precancerous injuries in the uterine neck" and emphasized, that from the moment in which those are registered "there is a lapse of 10 years for the cancer to develop".