The Future of Cancer

Cervical cancer: 100% preventable, but surrounded by stigma

“But mom, people with cancer die.” That’s what Ismael, eight years old, told his mother, Arelys Badilla Bosa, when he heard her say that they had detected cancer in the cervix: that is, cervical cancer. What Ismael did not know is that the survival rate from this cancer in Costa Rica is 78%, well above […]

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