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What causes vulvar cancer?
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Vulvar cancer is a type of cancer that affects the vulval region. The vulva can be described as being the part of female gentitalia that is ‘outside’ the body. The vagina is ‘inside’. In fact anything between the lips, which are called the labia, is outside the body.
Vulval cancer accounts for about three per cent of all gynaecological cancers and is most commonly diagnosed in older women aged around 70 years or over. There is no single cause of vulval cancer. Some risk factors include;- increasing age
- other sexually transmitted infections
- genital warts (human papilloma virus infection)
- past history of cell cervical cancer
- past history of vaginal cancer
- Smoking
- lichen sclerosus (a skin condition mostly affecting the genitals).
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- increasing age
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