A website providing information on cervical cancer has been launched to increase the understanding of the public on the disease.
The website www.kankerserviks.com was launched by a non-government organization (NGO), the Indonesian Initiative to Prevent Cervical Cancer (IPKASI) and provides information in English and Bahasa Indonesia on a breadth of topics from the disease’s cause to prevention.
The IPKASI had made the website because 70 percent of cervical cancer patients seek help to doctors when their disease has entered its later stages, narrowing the chances of being cured. This phenomenon reflects the public’s lack of understanding on the disease.
“Most doctors are not communicative enough and do not like to educate their patient. In addition, people do not have access to information, causing an information gap to form,” Dr. Sigit Purba, an obstetrician and gynecologist from the IPKASI, said in kompas.com.
The users of the website can thus consult online with doctors on cervical cancer.
As many as 37 women in Indonesia are diagnosed daily with this disease, with 20 women dying every day because of cervical cancer, which is caused by the human papilloma virus.
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