HEALTH NEWS
Black women at greater risk of cervical cancer
Black women in South Africa are at a greater risk of
contracting cervical cancer, a disease that kills 3 000 every
year. Professor Harald zur Hausen, 2008 Nobel Laureate and
the man credited for identifying the link between human
papillomaviruses (HPV) and cervical cancer, will deliver a
series of public lectures at Wits University from Wednesday
to Friday. About 21% of women in SA contract cervical
cancer at any given time, and 62.8% of invasive cervical
cancers are attributed to HPV subtypes 16 and 18.
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