Early sex causes cancer

In the conservative chastity of our ancestors lurked health benefits, as scientists have found. If a girl starts a regular sex life too early, the risk of cervical cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) she grows more than twice. And there is now, in many countries the diagnosis of this dangerous disease completely ignores such "early start".

It is known that most cases of this type of tumor called HPV virus Sexually transmitted. In the UK teenage girls on statistics obtained first sexual experience, usually 15 years. A Ministry of Health regulations stipulate first check for the presence of HPV in 25 years, ie 10 years after contracting the potentially possible.

The study is published in the journal British Journal of Cancer. The authors write that this delay in diagnosis and explains the higher percentage cervical cancer   young girls from poor families. Previously, it was tacitly accepted to the percentage due to greater promiscuity troubled adolescents, but it is now clear that the disease is often due to the fact that the girls' parents simply do not have the money to conduct costly analysis.

Moreover, an important risk factor for the formation of cancer   It is also the age at which a woman gave birth to her first child. But smoking and number of sexual partners do not play any appreciable role. Such findings made by scientists studying the more than 20 thousand girls. Doctors urged to vaccinate girls against HPV   at school - before they start a regular sex life.

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