volunteers screen for cervical cancer, remove pre-cancerous
lesions, perform hysterectomies when necessary, and
treat cervical cancer with life-saving radical hysterectomies.
The team is also researching new techniques that would
replace Pap smear screening and enable women to be
diagnosed and treated in one visit.
We have found that the incidence
of cervical disease in this previously unscreened
population is over ten times higher than that