AllAfrica.com
Gatonye Gathura
30 December 2010
Nairobi — As the year ends tonight, almost 2,000 women will have died from cervical cancer in the last 12 months.
Cervical cancer, mainly caused by a sexually transmitted virus, attacks some 2,454 women annually but only about 700 survive.
While breast cancer leads in newly diagnosed cases annually, it has higher survival rates compared to cancer of the cervix, a year-end review reveals.