What Every Woman Should Know about Cervical Cancer: Revised and Updated - Tapa blanda

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This book (an updated and extendededition) is about mobilizing women and health care policy makers and providersto unite their efforts in a single strategy for fighting cervical cancerworldwide. The objective of this strategy would be to reverse cervical cancerprevalence and mortality rates among all 2.4 billion women at risk and toachieve this goal within 10-15 years of implementation. Cervical CancerScreening (Pap test, VIA, VILI, or HPV) failed to stop cervical cancerworldwide simply because many countries could not afford developinginfrastructure necessary to carry on the global strategy, and because theoutreach could not accomplish the targeted 51% of the population at risk. In2015, there is still 600,000 women getting cervical cancer annually and 300,000of them die. Every minute one woman gets cervical cancer and every 2 minutesone woman dies from this preventable disease.

In 21^st Century theInformation Technology (IT) Revolution has made substantial impact on medicineenabling remote points-of care, scattered around the world, to be e-connectedwith experts in distant medical centers and to obtain quality diagnosis andproper guidelines for curative therapy of early stages of cervical cancer.  Low frequency of costly interventions neededmakes IT-based screening financially and socially beneficial for massscreening.  

This new Mobile Health technologywith the Global Strategy for Fighting Cervical Cancer is subject to elaborationin our book as the new hope when old efforts have failed to stop the world“epidemics” of this grave but preventable disease. The language is adapted foreasy reading and understanding by professionals and lay-persons                    

This book is intended for women atrisk for cervical cancer, their health care providers, health insurancecompanies, government responsible for making health policy and healthcareindustry because all of them have special role in the new Global Strategyelaborated in details in this book.