U.S., Nov. 21 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07240220) titled 'The Mother-Daughter Project: a Project to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening and Vaccination Against HPV in Western Kenya' on Nov. 16.
Brief Summary: * Although cervical cancer is preventable, this malignancy is the main cause of cancer-related deaths among Kenyan women, especially in those living in rural areas, where screening is seldom performed, and girls are not vaccinated against HPV, the cause of cervical cancer.
* Obstacles to screening include long travel to clinics, high costs, and factors related to the screening method used in sub-Saharan Africa.
* In addition, while safe and effective HPV vaccines have been available s...