Only 1 in 5 women in developing world receive effective cervical cancer screening
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Few women in the developing world are screened effectively for cervical cancer and those at highest risk of developing the disease are among the least likely to be screened, accordingly an analysis published in PLoS Medicine. The study, by Emmanuela Gakidou (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and colleagues, also finds striking inequalities in access to cervical cancer screening between and within countries.