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Bid to cut cervical cancer cases.
(From China Daily)
To most people living in towns or cities, a daily shower is taken for granted. But it is certainly a luxury farmer Li Fengxiang has to do without.
"I can only bathe at home once every 10 days in winter because of the water shortage," says the 40-year-old mother of two, who lives in Xiangyuan County in North China's Shanxi Province. "In summer, I just cleanse my body with a damp towel about every another day." Li's lack of washing eventually made her ill, and she caught a virus called HPV (human papilloma virus), which quietly deteriorates cells in the cervix and invades surrounding tissues. She ended up with a cancerous lesion in the cervix. Fortunately, doctors say her case is still in the early stages and is curable. Li is now in Xiangyuan Women and Children's Hospital with 20 other patients suffering from the same complaint. They are waiting for a Leep (Loop electrosurgical excision procedure) excision by oncologists from Beijing.
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