According to latest reports, a recent study, which has been carried out by the researchers from Manchester University, has claimed that the frequency of cervical cancer among young women has increased steadily during the last
20 years or so. In this regard, the researchers have blamed the increasing practice of having unprotected sex at a comparatively younger age, as indicated by the recent figures.

The increasing frequency of the incidence among women, especially aged in their 20s, has in fact spiked to twice its earlier value during 1992 and 2006, marking an escalation of 43%- though these rates have dropped tremendously in context to various other age groups.

The figures, which have been released by the study conducted by Manchester University, revealed that the possibility of cervical cancer for every 100,000 women, between 20 and 29 years of age, increased from 5.5 to 7.9.

In true essence, the number of incidence in the said age band spiked up from 215 to 283. Though it only marks an increase of 32%, the rate of cervical cancer cases seems more broad and steep seeing that the figure in close vicinity of 20 for women has fallen steadily to 3.3 million as compared to 3.8 million recorded earlier.

In this regard, while explaning the true nectar of the figures, the lead researcher Robert Alston, who has received monetary support from the Cancer Research UK, claimed: “Our results show that although numbers getting cervical cancer are dropping in the immediate years after cervical screening began, the numbers of women in their 20s now developing the disease have been rising since the early 90s”.

The highly-promising research will be reportedly presented at Liverpool’s Annual Cancer Conference, which has been scheduled to start on Sunday at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), Liverpool.