WHO Launches Global Push to Eliminate Cervical Cancer

By boosting human papillomavirus vaccination, cervical cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to slash new cervical cancer cases by 40% and deaths by 5 million by 2050. The effort is the first time the World Health Assembly ’s 194 member states have signed on to eliminate a type of cancer.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research