Cervical Cancer in Varanasi and Purvanchal: Why Early Screening Saves Lives

Every week, women from Varanasi, Ghazipur, Mau, Azamgarh, Ballia, and other parts of Purvanchal come to me with bleeding that “won’t stop,” pain that’s been dismissed for months as a “women’s problem,” or reports that already say the word every patient dreads. In almost every one of these conversations, the same question comes up eventually:…