Unlike most other cancers, cervical cancer can be prevented through screening, thus preventing the potential progression to cervical carcinoma. The availability of various screening tests to screen women for cervical cancers depends on the cost, morbidity, requirement of reliable biopsy specimens, resources available. This article outlines some of the screening tests used for diagnosis of cervical cancers. Cervical cancer still remains the most common cancer affecting the women.
It contributes to the global burden of cervical cancer cases and mortality, respectively. More than 85% of the global burden of cervical cancer cases and 88% of cervical cancer deaths occur in developing countries. The large-scale morbidity and mortality due to cervical cancer are because the disease takes a long time to develop after initial infection with high-risk Human papillomavirus (HPV). Unlike most other…
