Different cancers have different risk factors. For example, exposing skin to strong
sunlight is a risk factor for skin cancer. Smoking is a risk factor for many cancers. But
having a risk factor, or even several, does not mean that you will get the disease.
Seeral risk factors increase your chance of getting cervical cancer. Women without any of
these risk factors rarely develop cervical cancer. Although these factors increase the odds
of getting cervical cancer, many women with these risk factors do not develop this
disease. When a woman develops cervical cancer or pre-cancerous changes of the cervix,
it is not possible to say with certainty that a particular risk factor was the cause.
In thinking about the following risk factors, it helps to focus on those that you can change
or avoid (like smoking or human papilloma virus infection), rather than those that you
cannot (such as your age and family history). It is still important, though, to know about
risk factors that cannot be changed, because it's even more important for women who
have these factors to get regular Pap tests to detect cervical cancer early. Cervical cancer
risk factors include:
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