If you can prevent a cancer, wouldn't you?

People always think of Cancer as fatal, deadly, incurable… but wait. I’m sure you’ve heard of Cervical Cancer right?

Did you know that although Cervical Cancer is the ONLY women cancer that CAN be prevented by a vaccine, 1 woman in Singapore still die from it everyday? It’s such a painful pity.

I talked to so many of my female friends. Doesn’t matter if they don’t know that Cervical Cancer can be prevented because information can be passed on from you and me. But they display nonchalance at the mention of prevention against Cancer!

It breaks my heart and makes me very discouraged. Does awareness of everything have to be rooted from some form of incentive?

Does an ad have to go “Free XXX” or “Do XX and Win XX” before it gets our attention? It’s really sad.

For what it’s worth, not sure how many people out there are really reading my blog, I wish to urge everyone to spread the word on Cervical Cancer. Everything you need to know can be found here: www.pocc.sg

You can protect all the women you care for just by encouraging them to go for their regular pap smears and vaccinate against HPV. Empower them with knowledge. Your gfs, wives, female friends, colleagues, mother, aunties, cousins, and neighbours even.

Nobody deserves to die from a cancer that is so easily prevented. People say, the vaccine is costly. I say, could the cure be more expensive than the prevention? (It’s about $420 and above for the entire dosage of the vaccine)

Isn’t prevention better than cure?

I really hate to show you this but, this is what your cervix looks like when cancer has taken over.

(Image: CDC HPV Brochure)

Still think you are immune to it?

Cervical Cancer’s most common cause is HPV – a very common disease that is spread through sexual activity. Up to 80% of women will get infected with HPV at least once in their lifetimes. Though not all HPVs will cause Cervical Cancer.

I hope through this blog entry, more women will be more aware of themselves and what can take away the happiness that they have in store for them in life.

Let’s all lend a hand to this campaign in making the awareness of Cervical Cancer known to all the females we care about.

PLEDGE your support for this campaign by clicking here. The power of word of mouth can reach real far and wide. If you have a blog, blog about it. If you have Facebook, update it on your wall. If you have twitter, tweet about it.

Bottom line is:

If you can prevent a cancer, wouldn’t you? Did you know that Cervical Cancer can be prevented by a vaccination? Much like a flu jab.

Power Over Cervical Cancer is a campaign that aims to make Singapore the country with the lowest incidence of Cervical Cancer and they need your help to spread the word.

Pledge your support for this cause and protect those you care about by telling them about Cervical Cancer. Together, we have POWER Over Cervical Cancer. Click the button below to begin!