Battling to end cervical cancer

PETALING JAYA: It is estimated that more than half of all cervical cancer patients in Malaysia die from the disease, but public health officials are working hard to bring these numbers down to almost nil within the next 10 to 20 years.

The latest figures provided by the Global Cancer Observatory show that in 2020, 1,740 women in Malaysia contracted the disease, of whom 991 or 57% did not survive.