At MNH, a day never passed without receiving an in-patient diagnosed with cancer of the cervix in the gynaecology ward. Medically, doctors refer to it as the ‘carcinoma of the cervix’, simply ‘cacx’ in their medical jargon.
Often referred as shingo ya kizazi in Swahili, a cervix, biologically speaking, is a point of entrance to a woman’s womb.
