Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers among women around the world. In developed countries, the incidence rates for this disease have decreased dramatically thanks to a widely accepted method of screening. Even so, it is not entirely nonexistent. There are several thousand new cases that still pop up each year.

Causes and Risk Factors

The cause of cervical cancer is the human papillomavirus. HPV invades cells of the cervix and causes them to be dysplastic, or disorganized in structure. The more dysplastic the cells are, the greater the risk for conversion into malignant cancer. Note that HPV comes in a variety of numbered subtypes and not all of them cause malignancy. The ones most associated with cervical cancer include subtypes 16 and 18, though numerous others may carry some inherent risk as well.

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