A study on cervical cancer awareness among the Bengalee Women, Kolkata, West Bengal

Cervical cancer is considered to be a preventable health problem, but each year nearly about 530,000 women worldwide contract the disease. 275,000 women die from cervical cancer at the same time almost [1]. This makes cervical cancer the second most common cancer and third in terms of cancer-caused deaths among women worldwide [2]. Cervical cancer affects mostly women under 50 years of age [3]. Multiple social barriers for accessing basic screening and treatment services have posed or taking the Indian women at greater risk of developing the disease [4]. Eighty-six percent of all cervical cancer diagnosed and 88% of death due to cervical cancer occur in developing regions of the world. Cervical cancer is the most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age in India [5]. India bears about one fifth of the world’s burden of cervical cancer. More than 100,000 new cases are detected in India per year and it causes 20 percent of all female deaths in India [6].