Lifestyle has a definite role to play in the predisposition to various cancers in females especially for cervical cancer
Various factors are:
- Early /young age at first sexual encounter
- Multiple sexual partners
- Early / young age at marriage
- Repeated pregnancies n childbirths
- Poor genital hygiene
- Alcohalism, drug dependence, smoking… all contribute to under nutrition & poor immunity & so this HPV infection
- poor Socioeconomic status