 at Manupal Hospital, Kharagpur and today I'll be talking about cervical cancer and its prevention. Cervical cancer is one of the most common genital cancers in women in India. Mostly it is a preventable disease and in most foreign countries like the US and the UK, the incidence of cervical cancer has gone down specifically because of vaccination, pap smear screening strategies. However in India this is not commonly available and most women are not aware of this and therefore this incidence of cervical cancer is quite common. So how does cervical cancer occur? That's the most important question. Cervical cancer mostly occurs because of human papilloma virus commonly known as HPV infection. Now this HPV infection mostly occurs because of sexual intercourse and maintaining poor hygiene. So the first method to prevent cervical cancer would be to maintain good sexual practices like monogamous relationships and using contraceptives like condoms and also maintaining genital hygiene. Besides this the most effective method of prevention of cervical cancer is getting a pap smear down regularly that is for 21 years of age every three-yearly every woman should undergo a pap smear testing. So you should consult your doctor regarding pap smear screening. The second method which is now very commonly used is the cervical cancer vaccine. Cervical cancer vaccine is given to young girls from age nine years and above and it can be given up to 21 years of age. So three doses of the HPV vaccine are given from zero at zero and first month and six months later. In girls with an age less than 15 years only two doses of this cervical cancer vaccine is required. I request you to consult your doctor regarding both the methods and we can just do away with cervical cancer if we follow these two methods. Thank you so much.