
Health experts emphasize that vaccination, screening, and early treatment are vital to combat cervical cancer in India, where a woman dies from the disease every eight minutes. Caused by the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), cervical cancer is largely preventable through timely HPV vaccination for adolescents and regular screening. Despite the availability of vaccines since 2006, awareness remains low in India, contributing to the high disease burden. Global efforts, including WHO's declaration of cervical cancer as a public health problem, aim to increase prevention and early detection.
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