 Hello, my name is Dr. Shipra and I am working as a consultant obstetation and gynecologist at Manipal Hospital Kharaadi Pune. So today we will be talking about cervical cancer. In India January month is observed as cervical cancer awareness month and this is one of the most important of common cancers in Indian women and that is why we need to talk about it. So before we go on to details of how to prevent the cervical cancer we need to understand why does cervical cancer happen. So human papillomavirus is commonly present is the most important cause of cervical cancer infection with human papillomavirus if it carries on will lead to the development of cervical cancer. So how can we prevent it? So the best and the most foremost method for cervical cancer is cervical cancer screening. So every woman after the age of 21 years should undergo cervical cancer screening every 3 to 5 year. So you can talk to your doctor about this mostly we do a pap smear testing but you can go ahead and do a liquid based cytology which is again a pap smear testing but a better method to do it. This can be combined with HPV testing that is human papillomavirus testing and we can see if there is a high risk HPV infection present. Next after this we have an HPV vaccine available to us and this is given to young girls between the age of 9 to 14 years and depending on the age you can give one or two doses of the vaccine. So maintaining safe sexual practices is one of the methods also for preventing cervical cancer and this includes not having multiple sexual partners and use of condoms and maintaining perineal that is vaginal hygiene, changing of undergarments and your sanitary pads regularly. Besides this avoiding smoking which has become quite rampant alcohol use this should be also avoided. Thank you and may you remain safe from cervical cancer.