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China-Pak istan joint AI cancer screening lab put into operation
service has been available to surrounding residents after trial diagnosis for the hospital staff proved efficient and reliable Cervical cancer has become the third most common cancer in Pakistan after head and neck and breast cancers, and around 64 percent of Pakistani women who have this cancer lose their lives as they only discover the disease when it becomes almost incurable in the third or the fourth stage of cancer according to a study by the World Health Organization cervical cancer incidence in Pakistan reached 4 7 per 100 000 women in 2020 However from 2015 to 2019, fewer than 1 in 10 Pakistani women were screened for cervical cancer
Thus aI-powered, efficient and effective screening services can greatly enhance screening coverage China-Pakistan aI Cervical Cancer Screening Program started in 2019 on the ninth meeting of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Joint Cooperation Committee Pakistan s ministry of National Health Services regulations and Coordination is considering equipping more hospitals in Pakistan with such aI devices, CEN added
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