Abstract
Recently, an increase in the incidence of uterine cervical cancer, especially in women in their 20-30's, has become a major social problem. It is expected that uterine cervical cancer can be prevented and eradicated.
The authors gave a lecture about uterine cancer to female junior college students, and explained the need for procedures such as Pap smears, vaccines, and inoculations to prevent such cancer. The authors also used psychological tests to investigate the students' conscious changes for prevention before and after the lecture. As a result, although the student's initial knowledge about uterine cancer was low, the number of students wanting to receive cancer screening tests was high. However, it was found that those who do not know much about the contents of the uterine cancer screening tests including Pap smears are liable to have some reservations about uterine cancer screening tests. It was also found that awareness of a vaccine for the prevention of uterine cervical cancer was low among the students.
If a cancer screening test rate can be improved by education, it will lead to the early detection of uterine cervical cancer and to inoculation with the vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer.
