Rural–urban disparities in cervical cancer mortality persisted between 1950 and 2007 (Fig. 1). In 1950, the cervical cancer mortality rate for women living in non-metropolitan areas was 12.1 ...

Roughly two women in Britain every day die from cervical cancer, which famously killed TV personality Jade Goody at the age of just 27. The disease is often called a 'silent killer' because its ...