India, Jan. 3 -- A flood of questions drowned Jeanette in thought after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Would she be unable to conceive a child? Would she have to enter menopause at the early age of 31?

"I felt betrayed by my body," she told the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of an initiative to eliminate the disease.

Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women, took Jeanette's life a year after she was diagnosed. In January each year, Cancer Awareness Month, WHO underscores that the illness is both preventable and curable.

Cervical cancer is a reproductive cancer that develops in a woman's cervix and can spread to other parts of the body if not detected or treated early.

In 2022, an estimated 660,000 wome...