Will unmarried women get cervical cancer?

According to traditional concepts, "unmarried women" should be chaste and virgins, which means they avoid many external causes of cervical cancer that are closely related to sexual behavior, such as carcinogens transformed from smegma, carcinogenic viral infections introduced by sexual intercourse, etc. They will not have various cervical lesions caused by childbirth trauma, such as erosion, laceration and eversion, which become the internal basis for cancer. In this case, will women who are not married and have no history of sexual intercourse not get cervical cancer? Of course not, unmarried women can also get cervical cancer, but it is very rare. Unmarried women are unwilling to undergo gynecological census, so the domestic census targets are married women with children, and there is a lack of survey data on unmarried women. Why do unmarried women also get cervical cancer? The cause of cervical cancer investigation suggests that unmarried women avoid many external causes of cervical cancer that are closely related to sexual behavior, and will not have various cervical lesions caused by childbirth trauma. Then will unmarried women with no sexual intercourse history not get cervical cancer? Of course not, unmarried women can also get cervical cancer, but it is very rare.

The key point is that the real cause of cervical cancer is still unclear. It is only known that the combined effect of internal and external factors is important for the occurrence of cervical cancer.

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