Abstract

This is a case study of women with Invasive Cervical Cancer (ICC) and her course of treatment, showing the critical need for prevention through aggressive screening and vaccination programs. Even though cost of treatment was a barrier, she completed her radiation therapy and felt better. Then she experienced an aggressive recurrence associated with bilateral lungs metastasis thereafter and the only option was to refer her for palliative chemotherapy. This report highlights the difficulty faced by patients in getting radiation treatment in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) like Cameroon. It also supports the view that cervical cancer prevention via vaccination and with routine screening is crucial in addressing the growing burden of cervical cancer in LMICs especially given the cost of access to treatment and dearth of radiation treatment infrastructure.

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