Estimates of incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in 2018: a worldwide analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The knowledge that persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancer has resulted in the development of prophylactic vaccines to prevent HPV infection and HPV assays that detect nucleic acids of the virus. WHO has launched a Global Initiative to scale up preventive, screening, and treatment interventions to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem during the 21st century. Therefore, our study aimed to assess the existing burden of cervical cancer as a baseline from which to assess the effect of this initiative.

Methods

For this worldwide analysis, we used data of cancer estimates from 185 countries from the Global Cancer Observatory 2018 database. We used a hierarchy of methods dependent on the availability and qualit

SUBMITTER: Arbyn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7025157 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature