And then they also receive what's called brachytherapy. Where a device is placed inside the vagina and the cervix to deliver a high dose of radiation to where the cervical cancer is ...

Navigating the landscape of cervical cancer in India: Epidemiology, prevention, current status, and emerging solutions Go to source), contributing to nearly one-quarter of global deaths from the ...

Indigenously developed (Human papillomavirus) HPV test kits for cervical cancer screening were launched on Wednesday (April 23, 2025). The test kits have been developed under the Department of ...

The study titled 'Validation of Indigenous Human Papillomavirus Tests for Cervical Cancer Screening in India (i-HPV)' validated indigenously developed, rapid, point-of-care, RTPCR-based HPV ...

Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, officially launched indigenously developed HPV test kits for cervical cancer screening at a high-profile event in Delhi on Thursday.

The kits, which employ a chip-based RT-PCR testing method, facilitate rapid and decentralised detection of eight high-risk HPV genotypes - accounting for over 96% of cervical cancer cases worldwide.

Cervical cancer among South African women is almost entirely preventable and breast cancer outcomes can drastically improve with earlier detection. Yet, too many women – many of them ...

The prevalence of people being up-to-date on recommended cervical cancer screenings has dropped from 74.8% in 2019 to 73.4% in 2021 among ages 21 to 65, the report found, leaving more women at ...

The chip-based RT-PCR test allows rapid and decentralized detection of eight high-risk genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) which account for over 96% of cervical cancer cases globally. The ...

However, cervical cancer screening remains lower than pre-pandemic levels, and the HPV vaccination rate has not increased since the pandemic, researchers found. Other major cancer risk factors ...

First Lady Oluremi Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) has announced a N1 billion donation to the fight against cervical cancer by the National Cancer Fund. The donation, which coincided with ...