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Cohort Profile: African Collaborative Center for Microbiome and Genomics Research’s (ACCME's) Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Cervical Cancer Study
10 Mar 2017
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Globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women, with an estimated 528 000 new cases in 2012.1 Although it remains a significant public health problem worldwide, the burden of cervical cancer falls disproportionately on low-resource countries. In the USA, the incidence rate of cervical cancer was 6.6 per 100 000 in 2012,1 compared with 23.0 per 100 000 in Nigeria2 which had about half the...
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