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State urges women to go for cervical cancer screening

One in every two women diagnosed with cervical cancer dies of the disease despite it being preventable, the Health ministry has said.

Ministry head of the National Cancer Control Programme Anne Ng’ang’a said the biggest challenge was late diagnosis and the high cost of treating the disease at its advanced Stage Four.

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