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Cervical cancer in rural India

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology volume 6, pages 384–385 (2009)Cite this article

A study of cervical cancer screening in 52 villages in India has shown that a single round of human papillomavirus testing was linked to a significant reduction in the number of deaths from cervical cancer, compared with other screening methods. This has implications for primary screening in low-resource settings.

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