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Australia is pioneering towards a cervical cancer free world

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Australia is set to become the first country in the world to overcome cervical cancer, government funded vaccination campaigns, improvements made to the National Cervical Screening Program and awareness raised among females who are increasingly undertaking regular pap smears are some of the contributing factors to the new results of a recent study that shows that the rate of cervical cancer diagnosis in Australia is the lowest in twenty years.



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