January is cervical cancer awareness month. Cervical cancer can occur early in the productive period of a woman s life. In addition to this smoking unprotected sex having multiple children prolonged use of birth control pills and suffering from HIV and HPV infections can put you at risk of developing cervical cancer. Every sexually active woman is advised to get screened for cervical cancer. PAP smear is the most recommended test to diagnose HPV infection and is touted to be a cancer screening tool. However is it really effective to detect cervical cancer? Well here is what our expert Dr
