Can Cervical Cancer Vaccine While Pregnant?

Vaccine for cervical cancer are given for 3 consecutive times with a certain distance. If the schedule is in the midst of women experience pregnancy, the vaccine may I do?

"If in the midst of this experience first pregnancy should be avoided," said Dr. Dr. Junita Indarti, SpOG the press conference 'The Importance of Pillar 3 is Pregnancy and Childbirth Services Safe, Prevention and Screening Pelvic Dysfunction Disorders Basic Ingredients for Women's Health Indonesia' in RSCM Gold, Jakarta.

Dr Junita said shortly after giving birth should be injecting again. If the distance between the vaccine is less than a year then it need not be repeated again. But if it is more than a year away, it must be repeated again.
"If it is 2 times the vaccine is about 80 percent of antibodies to HPV has been formed. Distance first and second vaccine a month, now the second and third vaccine five months away," said the doctor who has 3 children of this.In Indonesia there are an estimated 40-45 new cases and there are 20-25 deaths per day. The development of this disease is quite long, from pre-to become cancerous take about 3-10 years.If cancer is found in the zero-stage high recovery rate because there has been an effective way to treat cervical cancer in early stages. Besides today there are many checks that can be done to detect cervical cancer such as pap smear, VIA, colposcopy, HPV DNA testing and more."For example, the pap smear showed abnormal cells, then followed by colposcopy and biopsy, can be taken," said Dr Junita who is Chairman of the Women's Health Center Cluster RSCM Kencana.Colposcopy is usually used to look at the mouth of the uterus by way of enlargement and lighting so they can see that there are abnormalities in the cervix. This examination lasted approximately 15 minutes and is painless, so no need of anesthesia.Other tests can be performed HPV DNA test, this test detects the presence of infection, especially high-risk HPV in the cervix. If found positive HPV DNA test results settle the colposcopy examination to see abnormalities or precancerous. This test is usually performed on women aged over 30 years."Precancerous cervical almost no symptoms and secondary prevention methods that can be done is through screening or screening, such as the Pap smear or liquid-based cytology," said Dr Junita.