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Tips on teaching teens about breast and cervical cancer

Kenyan schoolgirls looking at a friend who is getting vaccinated against HPV which causes cervical cancer. [Courtesy]

Globally, one in six women will develop cancer in her lifetime, and one in 11 will die. Incidences of cancer are lower in women in developing countries, but they have higher cancer deaths rates than women in the developed world.

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