Globally, cervical cancer is the second commonest cancer in female after breast cancer. In 2018, some 570,000 cases of cervical cancer were estimated to have occurred, with over 300,000 deaths. Around 80 per cent of cervical cancer cases occur in developing countries, and Nepal is one of them. This form of cancer is the commonest in girls and women aged between 15–44 years. In 2018, a total of 2,942 new cervical cancer cases were detected in the country. The disease killed as many as 1,928 patients in the same year.
