Numbers That Should Not Exist
Every eight minutes, an Indian woman dies of cervical cancer. That figure comes from ICMR data published in its National Cancer Registry Programme report, and it has not moved in the direction it should. India records roughly 1.25 lakh new cervical cancer cases annually and accounts for about 23 percent of all cervical cancer deaths worldwide, this in a country that is not the world's largest by population alone, but by the specific failure to deploy tools that already exist.
