Nigeria, March 18 -- Dr Okpala gave the advice while speaking in Abagana during a women empowerment program, organized by the Women Wing of the Abagana Welfare Union, AWU, for rural women in the community.

Okpala, who spoke on Cervical and Breast Cancer: Awareness and Prevention, said the major cause of cervical cancer is Human Papiloma Virus, HPV.

She identified some worrying signs to look out for to include when a woman starts seeing her menstruation long after it had stopped, waist pain, foul-smelling discharge from the vagina among others.

The medical expert noted that while breast cancer cannot be prevented, the good thing about cervical cancer is that it can be prevented with the HPV vaccine, and once detected early, it can be c...