Globally, cervical cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer affectingwomen—killingmore than 270,000 people every year. Themajority of these deaths (85%, according to theWHO) occur in developing countries. A global health priority, therefore, is to provide low-cost, highly effective cervical cancer prevention, detection, and control options to all women who need them. The human papilloma...

Humans have had cancer throughout documented history; hence it is no surprise that people have written about this deadly disease through ancient history. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest description of cancer, was discovered around 3000-2500 BC in Egypt describing 8 breast tumors that were eradicated by cauterization with a fire drill. As expected back then, the statement of the Egyptian wri...

AUDREY LEATHARD, The fight for family planning, London, Macmillan, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 293, illus., £15.00. "The subject is obscene: no lady would dream of alluding to it in mixed society", George Bernard Shaw told Marie Stopes after she had lost her libel action against Dr. Halliday Sutherland in the House of Lords. Fifty years later, in 1974, free birth control for all became available unde...

Cancer is a huge public health concern in South Africa and the rest of Africa. According to the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), more than 100 000 South Africans are diagnosed with cancer every year. Among women, the leading cancers include breast, cervical, colorectal, and kaposi sarcoma while prostate, kaposi sarcoma, lung, and colorectal cancers top the list of cancers affecting men.