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Editorial
. 2021 Jan;32(1):e12.
doi: 10.3802/jgo.2021.32.e12. Epub 2020 Dec 11.

Time for enhancing government-led primary prevention of cervical cancer

Kyung Jin Min  1 , Dong Hoon Suh  2 , Tsukasa Baba  3 , Xiaojun Chen  4 , Jae Weon Kim  5 , Yusuke Kobayashi  6 , Janice Kwon  7 , Myong Cheol Lim  8 , Jung Yun Lee  9 , Satoru Nagase  10 , Jeong Yeol Park  11 , Siriwan Tangjitgamol  12   13 , Hidemichi Watari  14
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Editorial

Time for enhancing government-led primary prevention of cervical cancer

Kyung Jin Min et al. J Gynecol Oncol. 2021 Jan.
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Fig. 1. Countries with human papillomavirus vaccine in the national immunization program as of October 23, 2020 (with permission from the World Health Organization). Notably, the HPV vaccination program was implemented in Taiwan in 2018, and it is a partial introduction in Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Fig. 2. The age-standardized incidence rate of cervical cancer in 5 Asian countries (A), International Agency for Research on Cancer. [Access December 10, 2020]. Incidence (B) and crude incidence rate (C) of cervical cancer in Korea [14].
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