Recent Advances Make Cervical Cancer Control In Developing World Feasible For First Time
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
Recent advances in cervical cancer prevention mean that controlling the disease in developing countries is becoming feasible for the first time, experts say. Developments such as highly effective vaccines against the human papilloma virus (HPV) and promising new screening tests provide an unprecedented opportunity to tackle the disease in poor countries, where pap smear screening has largely failed because it is too expensive and too complicated to implement.