Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women and in developing countries including Indonesia, Cervical cancer is a cancer that attacks the lower end of the uterus that protrudes into the vagina. This type of research is descriptive research using a Cross Sectional approach when the research was conducted from February to July 2018. The sample in this study were women of childbearing age who visited the Hj. Hendrayatni Midwife Clinic as many as 55 respondents who were taken using the total sampling technique. The results of this study obtained that women of childbearing age who had good knowledge were 7 respondents (12.7%), had sufficient knowledge as many as 45 respondents (81.8%) and had less knowledge as many as 3 respondents (5.5%). Thus, it is recommended for women of childbearing age to always deepen and expand their knowledge about cervical cancer and for health workers, especially at the Hj. Hendrayatni Midwife Clinic, to further expand the scope of counseling and information to women of childbearing age to better understand what cervical cancer is.
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