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Cervical Cancer – Causes and Risk Factors

Risk Factors of Cervical Cancer

Risk factors are factors that contribute to and increases the chances of a person developing cervical cancer. Even though certain risk factors contribute to developing cervical cancer, they may not directly cause cancer. Also been exposed to these risk factors does not mean that you would, for a fact, contract cancer.

Some of the risk factors that raise the chances of one developing cervical cancer include:

Exposure of diethylstilbestrol (DES)

This is a type of drug that has cervical cancer has a side effect. A mother who uses this drug during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage increases the risk of their female daughters contracting cervical cancer when they grow up. Other risk factors of cervical cancer include; smoking, socioeconomic factors, oral contraceptive, and herpes.