Tanzania:'Early Sexual Involvement Puts Girls At Cervical Cancer Risk'

[Daily News] YOUNG girls, especially schoolgirls, who engage in sexual intercourse, should have a second thought after findings by health experts showed that they are at risk of getting cervical cancer in the future. Addressing a cancer screening camp at Machame Hospital here recently, the Head of the KCMC Referral Hospital's Cancer Care Centre (KCMC CCC), Dr Furaha Serventi, pointed early sexual involvement by young girls as one of the factors leading to cervical cancer.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news