Examination for early detection of cervical cancer sometimes results pre-cancerous. However, pre-cancer has a cure rate of 85 percent by using cryotherapy."God willing to pre-cancer cure rate was 85 percent, but still we keep an eye on," said Dr. Dr. Laila Nuranna, SpOG (K) on the sidelines of Program Launch Month Prevent Cervical cancer in Jagakarsa District Health Center, Thursday (22/12 / 2011).
Dr. Laila further said that people usually refer to this as cryotherapy and cold gas can be treated at the health center. Currently there are seven health centers known to already have the tools to cryotherapy, but in the near future at least, there are 10 health centers that have this tool again.
"When this program (Month prevent cervical cancer) were not paid, but in fact the unit costnya about USD 125-150 thousand, but because there are subsidies from the government of DKI I heard later it costs only Rp 30 thousand," said Dr. Laila who is also the Coordinator of Female FKUI Cancer Program.
Cryotherapy in charge of destroying abnormal tissue in the cervix using a low temperature (cold). During this process, the liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) that is very cold circulates through a probe that is placed next to the abnormal tissue.
This condition will freeze the tissue for 2-3 minutes then melted and then frozen again for 2-3 minutes. Some treatments sometimes takes a single treatment for 5 minutes.
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