Vinegar Acid Therapy of Cervical Cancer Detection

Acetic acid was not only add flavor in the food delicious, but also useful to detect early cervical cancer is easily and inexpensively.Early detection of cervical cancer with vinegar method is called VIA (Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid). This method has been introduced since 1925 by Hans Hinselman from Germany, but only applied around the year 2005.
Ministry of Health had already adopted it. This method is in addition to easy and cheap, also has a very high accuracy in detecting precancerous lesions or sores, which reached 90 percent.
Early detection by applying vinegar to 3-5 percent in the mouth of the womb (cervix) is not to be done by a doctor, but can be practiced by trained personnel such as midwives in health centers. And in about 60 seconds already can be seen if there are abnormalities, namely the appearance of white plaques on the cervix. These white plaques may be aware as a pre-cancerous sores.
World Health Organization (WHO) has examined the application of IVA in India, Thailand, and Zimbabwe. Its effectiveness was not lower than the pap smear.
In addition to the same performance with other tests and the results can be immediately known, IVA also offers other advantages, that is practical, requiring only simple tools, and affordable.
Inke Maris, communications expert who is also cofounder of the Prevention of Cervical Cancer Initiative Indonesia (Ipkasi), said many health centers are able to provide testing services IVA is a cost of about 15 thousand dollars.
"In fact, a number of areas has published regulations that set a price of only five thousand dollars for IVA inspection," added Dr.Basalama Fatum, MSM, Head of Sub Directorate of Cancer.PPTM, Kemenkes RI.
This therapy is of short duration, about 5 minutes. There is discomfort when undergoing this therapy. Most women feel the sensation of cold and a little cramping, or sometimes feel warm spread on the upper body and face.
Ease of handling checks at once if found precancerous sores are spurred to make See and Treat program more and more applied in a number of health centers. Expected with the IVA, will more and more women are reached by early detection of cervical cancer, so the incidence of this cancer can be derived.