Black Women At Greater Risk Of Cervical Cancer

Black women at greater risk of cervical cancer

Black women in South Africa are at a greater risk of contracting cervical cancer, a disease that kills 3 000 every year. Professor Harald zur Hausen, 2008 Nobel Laureate and the man credited for identifying the link between human papillomaviruses (HPV) and cervical cancer, will deliver a series of public lectures at Wits University from Wednesday to Friday. About 21% of women in SA contract cervical cancer at any given time, and 62.8% of invasive cervical cancers are attributed to HPV subtypes 16 and 18.