Letter to the Editor: Screening of cervical cancer: Barriers and facilitators

To the editor: cervical cancer is highly preventable with the use cervical cancer screening tools, and can be easily treated if detected at early stages. worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer associated mortality. though incidence of cervical cancer has reduced in last three decades in the developed nations, it still contributed to 200,000 deaths of women in the year 2010, of whom 46,000 were in the reproductive age group and from developing countries. the observed reduction in incidence is mainly because of widespread application of cervical cancer screening with the papanicolaou (pap) test.