Jakarta, Feb. 3 -- As the international community marks World Cancer Day every February 4, Indonesia is stepping up its efforts to combat cervical cancer; one of the leading causes of death among Indonesian women.

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

In Indonesia, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer killing Indonesian women after breast cancer.

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 incidence of cervi...