Can Australia wipe out cervical cancer? Possibly, if screening rates rise

Registered nurse and Wiradjuri woman Alison Barnes holding a new self screening swab (SBS-Sandra Fulloon).jpg

Source: SBS / Sandra Fulloon

Migrant and Indigenous women are over-represented among more than 900 cervical cancer diagnoses each year.


New approaches aim to change that.

Kulasegaram Sanchayan reports in Tamil with a feature written by Sandra Fulloon.

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