Answering the Call to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer - Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia. 2019;41(2):67-67
The opportunity to improve the lives and survival rates of women through the elimination of cervical cancer is a dream that every obstetrician-gynecologist, every women’s health specialist, and our societies must embrace. I can never forget the anguished faces of the 4-year-old son and of the husband of one of my first young patients dying of cervical cancer because it had been just “too far and too much money” to go for cervical screening. We now have the means to prevent that tragedy for other families.
Cervical cancer causes more deaths than maternal mortality in many regions of the globe, and kills well over a quarter million women per year, most in low- and middle-income countries or in rural and low-income areas within countries. Most of these deaths could be prevented with access to human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization and cervical screening services. Without scaling up our action, the number of deaths due to this condition will grow in the future.
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The opportunity to improve the lives and survival rates of women through the elimination of cervical cancer is a dream that every obstetrician-gynecologist, every women's health specialist, and our societies must embrace. I can never forget the anguished faces of the 4-year-old son and of the husband of one of my first young patients dying of cervical cancer because it had been just “too far and too much money” to go for cervical screening. We now have the means to prevent that tragedy for other families.
Cervical cancer causes more deaths than maternal mortality in many regions of the globe, and kills well over a quarter million women per year, most in low- and middle-income countries or in rural and low-income areas within countries. Most of these deaths could be prevented with access to human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization and cervical screening services. Without scaling up our action, the number of deaths due to this condition will grow in the future.
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