{"id":8557,"date":"2023-07-24T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=8557"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T04:02:26","slug":"watsons-announces-new-campaign-to-raise-awareness-on-cervical-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/watsons-announces-new-campaign-to-raise-awareness-on-cervical-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Watsons announces new campaign to raise awareness on cervical cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Health and beauty products retailer Watsons announced a new campaign which raises awareness on cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women next to breast cancer, to ensure their well-being.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Called &nbsp;\u201cTake Action\nfor Women\u2019s Health,\u201d the campaign emphasizes the importance of knowing that\ncervical cancer can be prevented if diagnosed and treated early, and with the\naccessibility and availability of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) screening and\nvaccine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sharon Decapia, Watsons\u2019 senior assistant\nvice president for marketing, PR, and sustainability, Watsons wants to help\nraise awareness by emphasizing to all women the benefits of vaccination and\ndangers of the disease. She also announced that the HPV vaccine is now available\nin more than 200 Watsons stores nationwide for women to prevent the risk of cervical\ncancer. The availability and schedule of HPV vaccination can be seen at\nWatsons\u2019 website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Carolyn Zalameda-Castro of the Philippine Obstetrical\nand Gynecological Society (POGS) said, \u201cthere is a very big opportunity to\ncombat cervical cancer with educating women as the first step in creating a\ndent in the incidence of this very important public health concern.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large majority of cervical cancer is caused by human\npapilloma virus (HPV), the most common viral infection of the reproductive\ntract. Dr. Cecilia Llave of the Philippine Cancer Society (PCS) noted that\n99.7% of cervical cancer cases are due to HPV which can stay with the afflicted\nperson for 10 to 25 years before it can develop into cancer. Some risk factors\nfor cervical cancer include early sexual contact, low resistance, and with\nhistory of sexually-transmitted disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are about 7,000 women who are diagnosed of\ncervical cancer every year and 68% of them died on the same year because 75% of\nthem are diagnosed very late. The country also does not have enough facilities\nwhich offer HPV screening \u2013 only 7.7% have been screened and only 10% of the\ncountry\u2019s facilities are available. Because of this, the National Integrated\nCancer Control (NICC) and the Universal Health is pushing for this screening to\nbe available to all women aged 25 to 65 years old. The World Health\nOrganization (WHO) is also pushing for early screening, even without any\nsymptoms of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is advised that women must avail of early HPV\nscreening for early detection of pre-malignant lesion to prevent it from\ndeveloping into a malignant and invasive cancer. Llave said that if the cancer\nis Stage 0 and 1, there is a big chance it can be treated through thermal\nablation and cryo surgery. For Stage 2, the chance that it can be treated\nreduces to 66%, 36% for Stage 3 and 7% for Stage 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cervical cancer can be prevented through vaccination,\nhealthy lifestyle, and early screening. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three levels of prevention for cervical\ncancer. These are the primary prevention or vaccination which is given to\nchildren 9 to 14 years old, the secondary prevention is screening that should\nbe linked immediately to treatment so it can\u2019t progress into cancer, and the\ntertiary prevention is treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Called  \u201cTake Action for Women\u2019s Health,\u201d the campaign emphasizes the importance of knowing that cervical cancer can be prevented if diagnosed and treated early, and with the accessibility and availability of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) screening and vaccine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2155,247,2039],"class_list":["post-8557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-women-empowerment","tag-womens-health","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8558,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8557\/revisions\/8558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}