Mexican Department of Public Health to Launch Screening for Papillomavirus, Cause of Cervical Cancer

In a campaign to significantly reduce the most common cancer affecting Mexican women, the Mexican Public Health Agency (Secretaria de Salud) announced that it is launching the first phase of a program that will offer free testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), the primary cause of cervical cancer, to all low-income women age 35-65. In the first phase of the screening program, expected to begin this week, 200,000 women in the lowest-income 125 counties will be offered the papillomavirus test along with the traditional Pap smear. Early next year, the pilot program will be expanded to include another 600,000 women in the 20 states with the highest death rate from cervical cancer. It is hoped...

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