Jakarta, Jan. 15 -- The international community observes World Cancer Day every February 4 to raise global awareness of cancer, including cervical cancer-a deadly disease that has taken the lives of women of all ages and backgrounds across the globe.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this illness remains a silent killer, claiming more than 340,000 women's lives annually. Alarmingly, around 90 percent of these deaths occur in developing nations.

In Indonesia, the picture is equally murky. The 2022 Globocan report by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer revealed that the country recorded around 36,964 new cases, with more than 20,000 women losing their lives to the disease annually.

The tragedy lies in the fa...