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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Farheen Hussain | TNN

Awareness up, but rise in cervical cancer cases a concern, say Bengaluru doctors

BENGALURU: Despite awareness, increasing instances of cervical cancer have surprised city doctors.

Citing from an exercise that covered a cohort of 2,400 Bengaluru women, Dr Tausif Ahmed Thangalvadi, medical director, NURA, said he was surprised to notice that while worldwide only one in nine or 10 women shows cervical anomalies, one in four women in the city displayed such anomalies that could eventually develop into cervical cancer.

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