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Cervical cancer is a disease in which the cells of the cervix become abnormal and start to grow uncontrollably, form-493,243 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 273,505 die from the disease. The prevalence of cervical Hailu and Mariam BMC Cancer 2013, 13:69 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/13/69For instance, among 243 cancer cases, cervical cancerSchool of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, P.O.Box 9086, Addis Ababa, Ethiopiaing tumors. It is considered a disease of early and late mid-dle age. Isolated cases are found to occur among young women, but incidence rates are seen to rise sharply from age 35 years [1]. Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death from cancer among women in low-resource settings, affecting women at a time of life when they are critical to social and economic stability [2]. cancer in the developing world is 59.4 per 100,000 [3]. In Africa the estimates indicate that every year 78,897 women are diagnosed and 61,671 die from the disease [4]. According to the WHO estimates, in Ethiopia 7,600 are diagnosed with cervical cancer and roughly 6,000 women die of the disease each year [5]. Although there is no national cancer registry in Ethiopia, reports from a retrospective review of biopsy results have shown that it is the most prevalent cancer among women. * Correspondence