While the mortality rate for cervical cancer has declined dramatically since the 1970s, more than 400 Canadian women succumbed to the disease in 2019. A new paper, published in the International Journal of Cancer, by researchers at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, supports a novel alternative to standard pap smears and human papillomavirus (HPV) tests, one that has the potential to detect cervical cancer earlier than ever before.
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