Wanchai Satayawutthipong, who presided over a workshop Monday on guidelines for screening to detect cervical can¬cer in 75 provinces, said the disease was the most lethal cancer among Thai women. Most of those diagnosed were between 45 and 60 years old.
In 2007, there were 7,000 new cervical cancer patients and 3,500 women died from the disease - about nine deaths per day, he said.
The Nation