Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in terms of incidence in women, with an estimated 660,000 new cases in 2022 Go to footnote 1, Go to footnote 2
Cervical cancers account for over 90% of HPV-related cancers in women. Go to footnote 3
Country-level data: Please refer to the country reports in the HPV Centre. Go to footnote 4
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Global Cancer Observatory [website]. Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC); 2022 (https://gco.iarc.fr/today/en, accessed 19 June 2025).
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Bray F, Laversanne M, Weiderpass E, Soerjomataram I (2024). Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 74(3):229–263. https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21834.
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World Health Organization (2023). Human papillomavirus (HPV) and cancer. Geneva: World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-papilloma-virus-and-cancer, accessed 19 June 2025).
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Country-level data: Country Reports, HPV Centre, (https://hpvcentre.net/datastatistics.php)
