Slum and Rural Health Initiative

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February 2022

Disparity in the Incidence, Prevalence, Etiology, Screening and Presentation of Cervical Cancer between Africa and America

Prevalence and Incidence of Cancer of the cervix Global statistics on cancer shows that there were 570,000 fresh cases of cancer of the cervix with 311,000 mortalities in 2018. Of these new cases, 500,000 (88%) cases were from countries of low and middle income (CLMI) [1]. This ranks cancer of the cervix in terms of …

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PRIORITIZING YOUR HEALTH GOALS; CERVICAL SCREENING IS A MUST

Every year, people hardly make health resolutions and the few health resolutions made usually include losing/gaining weight, joining a gym and changing bad lifestyle practices. One important health resolution every woman should be making is testing and screening exams for all women-related diseases. It’s cervical cancer awareness month and an important test every woman aged …

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