Petition update#CervicalCancer: Include HPV Vaccine in Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) of India"Evidence for the path to cervical cancer elimination"
Ankur ChhabraToronto, Canada
Dec 5, 2019
  • There were 570,000 cases and 311,000 deaths worldwide last in 2018
  • The average age of diagnosis was 53
  • In 42 low-resource countries, it was the most common cancer in women
  • A third of the cervical cancer burden fell on India and China together
  • 84% of cases occur in low-resource countries - relatively unchanged from a decade ago.

Source: Bhadelia, A. (2019, December 4). Evidence for the path to cervical cancer elimination | Elsevier Enhanced Reader. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30523-6

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