Politico September 25, 2024
WORLD VIEW
President Joe Biden’s cancer moonshot is expanding abroad.
How’s that? Biden announced a collaboration between the United States, Australia, India and Japan to fight cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific at a summit in Delaware on Saturday.
Why it matters: Cervical cancer, caused by human papillomavirus infection, is the fourth most common cancer in women globally, killing an estimated 350,000 in 2022, according to the World Health Organization.
In the Indo-Pacific, cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death in women.
The disease is also largely preventable due to the availability of a nearly 100-percent-effective vaccine and is highly treatable when detected early. But, partly because of limited resources and health care access, fewer than 1 in 10...
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