Cervical Cancer

World Cancer Day: action for protection against cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is among the most common types of cancer affecting women in the WHO European Region, with 69 000 new cases and 30 000 deaths estimated for 2018 alone. Yet unlike most other types of cancer, it is vaccine-preventable. On World Cancer Day, WHO/Europe aims to raise awareness that timely vaccination against human papillomavirus […]

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Cervical cancer hits the developing world hard

Cervical cancer is one of the deadliest, yet most easily prevented, forms of cancer for women, causing over 270,000 deaths a year, 85{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} of which occur in developing countries. It is estimated that over one million women worldwide are currently living with cervical cancer and the majority of these have no access to health services

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