WHO: cervical cancer six times more prevalent in Kenya than in western countries

Nairobi, Kenya: Women and medical practitioners are alarmed over the increasing cases of cervical cancer in Kenya as the killer disease continues affecting thousands of women every year. Medical specialists say too many women are developing the cancer unnecessarily and facing the pain and hassle of expensive treatments when there are effective and relatively inexpensive techniques of preventing the disease or catching it early.

According to the World Health Organisation, the disease is nearly six times more prevalent in Kenya than in Western Europe, and ten times higher than in the United States.