VietNamNet Bridge – Around 500,000 women in the world get this disease each year and nearly 300,000 die of it. In Asia-Pacific, cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer among women, said Prof. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, former Director of the HCM City-based Tu Du Obstetrics Hospital.

Speaking at a conference on cervical cancer prevention in HCM City on Sunday, Prof. Phuong said every day, 17 Vietnamese women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and nine of them die.

Doctor Tran Nguyen Ha from the HCM City Cancer and Tumour Hospital said cervical cancer is second only to breast cancer among women. In the world around 1.2 million breast cancer cases are reported each year and around 4 million women die of this disease.

In Hanoi, breast cancer accounts for 30% of all kinds of cancers and 20% in HCM City. However, if the disease is discovered early, around 96% of the cases can be treated. 

(Source: Tien Phong)