Human Papillomavirus related issues in western Kazakhstan: protocol for a comprehensive study

Yerbol Bekmukhambetov, Ospan A. Mynbaev, Andrea Tinelli, Saule Balmagambetova, Arip Koyshybaev, Olzhas Urazayev, Elnara Ismagulova, Oxana V. Zavalennaya, Svetlana Koktova, Klara K. Sarkulova,

Russian Open Medical Journal · 2018 · 29 citations · 18 references

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Introduction ICO (Institut Catala d’Oncologia) working group in its annual report of 2015 informed that cervical cancer (CC) in Kazakhstan ranked the 2nd most frequent cancer among women and the 1st most frequent cancer between 15 and 44 years of age, with roughly calculated incidence rate 32.8 per 100,000 women standardized by age [1]. According to the IARC (International

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