{"id":5635,"date":"2022-11-07T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:33:45","slug":"affordable-cervical-cancer-test-holds-life-preserving-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/Q4\/affordable-cervical-cancer-test-holds-life-preserving-promise","title":{"rendered":"Affordable cervical cancer test holds life-preserving promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>Cervical cancer killed 342,000 women around the world in 2020. According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/cervical-cancer\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Health Organization<\/a>, the vast majority of these women \u2014 about 90% \u2014 lived in low- and middle-income countries where access to testing for early detection is either unaffordable or nonexistent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purdue researchers Jacqueline Linnes and Sulma Mohammed are determined to save lives by developing a low-cost, point-of-care paper test that could revolutionize cervical cancer detection worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/research\/features\/stories\/affordable-cervical-cancer-test-holds-life-preserving-promise\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More information can be read on the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media are welcome to share, post and publish this content.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"note\" class=\"post-content__attribution \">\n    <div class=\"columns\"> \n                    <div class=\"column\"> \n                <p class=\"post-content__source\">\n                    <strong>Media contact:\u00a0<\/strong>Amy Raley,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:araley@purdue.edu\">araley@purdue.edu<\/a>                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; Cervical cancer killed 342,000 women around the world in 2020. According to the&nbsp;World Health Organization, the vast majority of these women \u2014 about 90% \u2014 lived in low- and middle-income countries where access to testing for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}