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The head of the obstetrics and gynecology department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, Dr. Ismail Al-Badawi, stressed the importance of girls getting cervical cancer vaccination, between the ages of 12 to 26 years. For its efficiency in protecting against cervical cancer, which is the third most common "gynecological" cancer in the Kingdom.
Dr. Al-Badawi added that the cervical cancer vaccine prevents most cases of the disease in females, if vaccination is done before exposure to the human papillomavirus, and it can also protect against vaginal and genital warts and anal cancer in females.
In a parallel context, the Executive General Supervisor of the General Organization of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Dr. Majed Al-Fayyad, inaugurated the Women''s Health Awareness Day, which was organized by the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, in cooperation with the Nursing Affairs Department at the hospital under the slogan "Your health distinguishes you", and included 14 awareness pillars targeting all Community layers With the aim of raising awareness and health culture in relation to women''s health in all their life stages.
The Director of the Nursing Program for Women and Infants at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, specialist Kholoud Al-Shammari, explained that the awareness pillars for women''s health focused in their entirety on the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer, the prevention of breast cancer, the prevention of genetic diseases and their early detection before implantation of embryos. Prevention of colon cancer and care for women in its various stages, including during pregnancy, after childbirth and in the age of wisdom, with the participation of the digestive system corner, reproductive medicine, maternal and fetal medicine, gynecological oncology, family medicine, the wisdom tooth corner, in addition to the participation of the Zahra Association And the Abdul Latif Al-Abdullatif Center, the Rafidah Association, and the Naqaa Association for Smoking Control.
