Human papillomavirus (HPV) screening and vaccination must be taken up on a war footing in countries like India to prevent 15 million cervical cancer deaths among women by 2050 a Lancet research said. Causing the second-highest number of deaths among Indian women among cancer variants cervical cancer in a majority of cases is caused by HPV a group of more than 150 viruses. The efforts might even result in cervical cancer being eliminated as a public health hazard in India by 2070-79 according to the study published in The Lancet Oncology journal. Combining high uptake of the HPV vaccine and