Many women do not check if they have cervical cancer, even though an early diagnosis is crucial to saving lives.
The Stockholm region, for example, called 100,000 women for screening in 2018, but the following year 45,000 of them had still not arrived. It shows a review that the Cancer Foundation has done.
Every year, 150 women in Sweden die of the disease and an early diagnosis is crucial to save lives.
“It is about saving lives. The region must increase its efforts to get women to come to their screening,” says Ulrika Årehed Kågström, Secretary General of the Cancer Foundation, in a press release.
Cervical cancer is the third most common form of cancer in women under the age of 50 and is almost always caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus.
Source: ICELAND NEWS