Cervical cancer cases buck EU decline trend

IRELAND is the only country in western Europe where deaths from cervical cancer continue to increase.

But systematic and regular screening of women aged 25 to 60 years of age reduced deaths by 80%, experts attending the launch of the first European Cervical Cancer Awareness week heard.

In Ireland this meant that the lives of 56 of the 70 women who died every year from cervical cancer could be saved, according to a spokeswoman for the Irish Cancer Society (ICS).