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Cervical cancer threatens 30% Chinese women: doctors
By Cai Wenjun |
September 18, 2012, Tuesday
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THE incidence of cervical cancer among Chinese women has increased from less than 5 percent 20 years ago to 30 percent now due to early exposure to sex life, medical experts told a conference today.
Experts said public education on cervical cancer and popularization of screening are the most effective way to control the spread of the disease, so far the only preventable and treatable cancer.
But most Chinese women are unaware of cervical cancer prevention and clinical screening is lacking, doctors said.
Through liquid-cytology test and HPV test to find the virus that causes cervical cancer, doctors can detect a cervical cancer patient with a 100 percent accuracy rate.
The BD China and Germany-based QIAGEN today signed a cooperation agreement in Shanghai to operate cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment centers in major hospitals in China.
"If pre-cancerous changes can be detected in time, patients can be cured of cervical cancer completely and their life span won't be affected," said Dr Qiao Youlin with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College.
The world has about 500,000 new cervical cancer patients every year and 233,000 of them die from the disease annually. China reports about 140,000 new cases each year, one third of the world's total.
Experts said public education on cervical cancer and popularization of screening are the most effective way to control the spread of the disease, so far the only preventable and treatable cancer.
But most Chinese women are unaware of cervical cancer prevention and clinical screening is lacking, doctors said.
Through liquid-cytology test and HPV test to find the virus that causes cervical cancer, doctors can detect a cervical cancer patient with a 100 percent accuracy rate.
The BD China and Germany-based QIAGEN today signed a cooperation agreement in Shanghai to operate cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment centers in major hospitals in China.
"If pre-cancerous changes can be detected in time, patients can be cured of cervical cancer completely and their life span won't be affected," said Dr Qiao Youlin with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College.
The world has about 500,000 new cervical cancer patients every year and 233,000 of them die from the disease annually. China reports about 140,000 new cases each year, one third of the world's total.
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