Another preventative measure you can take is as simple as your diet, by eating whole foods rather than processed foods.Cervical cancer is caused by Human Papillomavirus or HPV. This is a common virus that is primarily spread through skin-to-skin contact during sexual activity.“It can be treated with a hysterectomy, it can be treated with radiation, […]
Another preventative measure you can take is as simple as your diet, by eating whole foods rather than processed foods.Cervical cancer is caused by Human Papillomavirus or HPV. This is a common virus that is primarily spread through skin-to-skin contact during sexual activity.“It can be treated with a hysterectomy, it can be treated with radiation, there are chemotherapies, but those are all big interventions and things that really affect quality of life. And so, what we would love to do is to know that every woman is vaccinated, cause that is a big part of cervical cancer prevention, and then is screened,” GYN Oncologist Dr. Haygood said.You can click here to learn more about St. Dominic’s Gynecologic Oncology services.JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and Dr. Christy Haygood at St. Dominic’s is continuing her push to educate you about the disease and the best ways to not only treat or detect it but also prevent it.Want more WLBT news in your inbox? Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.Women are encouraged to get their first PAP test screening at 21 years old, while HPV tests are not recommended for screening women until they are 30.Copyright 2025 WLBT. All rights reserved.See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Please click here to report it and include the headline of the story in your email.For most, HPV will go away on its own, but for those where that isn’t the case, it can cause certain cancers in women and men.However, it can be prevented with a vaccine that is available for all individuals from ages 9 to 45.“What I want to point out about the vaccine for HPV is the most virulent oncologic versions that are here in the U.S. that cause 97% of cervical cancers here in the U.S. are entirely preventable by the vaccine. So the fact that we have a readily available vaccine with a very low side effect profile is amazing and incredible, and if I can get everybody on board to make that decision for themselves and to prevent that cancer by getting a vaccine, I would do it,” Dr. Haygood said.
