{"id":5924,"date":"2023-03-17T04:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:13:31","slug":"cervical-cancer-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cervical-cancer-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Cervical Cancer Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About the study findings:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India reported 1,23,907 new cases of cervical cancer and 77,348 deaths, according to the study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Countries-wise findings of <\/strong><strong>Cervical Cancer<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Though the incidence of cervical cancer has decreased in many parts of the world \u2014notably in <strong>Latin America, Asia, Western Europe, and North America<\/strong> \u2014 over the past three decades, the burden remains high in many low- and middle-income countries.<\/li>\n<li>The study found major declines in cases in <strong>Latin American countries<\/strong> including Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica; Asian nations like India, Thailand, and South Korea; and Poland, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic in Eastern Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Countries with the largest average declines in incidence rates per year include Brazil (8%), Slovenia (7%), Kuwait (7%), and Chile (6%).<\/li>\n<li>The highest increases in rates were seen in Latvia (4%), Japan (3%), Ireland (3%), Sweden (3%), Norway (2%), Northern Ireland (2%), Estonia (2%), and China (2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Database:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The study used the <strong>International Agency for Research on Cancer\u2019s (IARC) Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) 2020 database<\/strong> to estimate the burden of cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in 185 countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Incidence:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2020, overall incidence was 13 per 1,00,000 women; mortality was 7 per 1,00,000 women.<\/li>\n<li>As many as 172 out of the 185 countries saw more than the 4 cases per 1,00,000 women per year threshold for elimination set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/li>\n<li>The development of effective vaccination against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, and screening programmes have made cervical cancer a largely preventable disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Target:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2020, the WHO announced a target to accelerate the elimination of the disease as a public health problem, aiming to reduce incidence to <strong>less than 4 cases per 1,00,000 women per year in every country by 2030.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Human papillomavirus Infection?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a viral infection that is\u00a0 passed between people through skin-to-skin contact. There are over 100 varieties of HPV, more than 40 of which are passed through sexual contact and can affect your genitals, mouth, or throat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-health\/who-cervical-cancer-target-still-distant-lancet-study-8325042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cervical cancer has become a preventable disease with effective vaccination &#038; screening programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}