Of the total number of women who die from cervical cancer, 85% live in a developing country.
Of the total number of women who die from cervical cancer, 85% live in a developing country.
They are often young mothers who are at the heart of the household and indispensable to the family income and the local economy.
When they are gone, it has a big impact on their families and the village they live in.
The Female Cancer Foundation strives for a world without cervical cancer through screening, research and education.
Volunteer supervising physicians Geerte den Hollander and Barbara van Gessel visited the project in Sierra Leone in and around Makeni and Bombali district in March 2025. The program offers women free screening and direct treatment according to the See & Treat method. What is special from World Hope International, the local partner, is the example this project sets for the government. They have now done about two-thirds of the screenings across the country with their team (about 20,000 of the 30,000 women screened in total). They are also asked by the government to provide advice for strategy at the national level. To partners, this team performs a mentoring function. The visit again gave a lot of insights, to really walk along again and see the developments in the field and talk with local partners at that level. Further actions will be followed up.
Volunteer supervising physician Marlieke de Fouw and Project Manager Jerica van Niekerk visited the project in Nepal in Sunsari district in February 2025. The program offers women free screening and direct treatment using the See & Treat method. "It was incredibly beautiful to see how as many as 200 women came that day and the screening went smoothly. Wonderful to see the screening go well in practice and this is a well-oiled machine. At the same time as the screening, the first round of HPV vaccinations for girls took place in the same district. We visited the school and a loud murmur rose when they saw us. The girls and parents had been educated and now they were all getting that important vaccination, nice to be able to witness that. We also visited several mayors and hospitals. Everyone seemed to know about the project. Marlieke and Jerica were impressed by Karuna's work and had good discussions together about the strategy to expand even further, the referral of women and the dates.
Appropriately at the beginning of "Cervical Cancer Prevention Week," our supervising physician Marlieke de Fouw publishes her scientific article before she receives her PhD, titled:
"𝑪𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂:
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥"
𝑴. 𝒅𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒘
Her research provides important and valuable insights into how daily practice in Uganda relates to national treatment targets for cervical cancer. The article highlights both the successes and challenges as well as the need for prevention programs and expansion of oncology capacity in Uganda so that we can continually improve our ability to fight this disease.
Congratulations Marlieke on this milestone!
Click on the link for the article
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"I feel privileged because I live in the Netherlands, in another country my chances would really have been very different. That unfairness, that inequality in where you're born, that's why I think FCF's work is so important. They reach the women who have poor access to care."
Today, on International Womensday, former patient Hazel tells her story. About the diagnosis, what the disease did to her and how she views cervical cancer worldwide. Read the full interview here.
Last week, the international consortium meeting of the PRESCRIP-TEC project took place. With the local implementing partners from Uganda, Bangladesh, Slovakia and India and supporting partners from Spain, Scotland and the Netherlands, among others, it was a great international success!
During this 3-day meeting, experiences and information were exchanged. In the final phase of this 3-year project, we are now collecting and analyzing the results. Publications are coming soon! Read more about the project here .
Together with several local partners in Suriname, FCF launched a project to
Read more about the project in Suriname here.
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For more information, see our job posting.
Our supervising physician and researcher Marlieke de Fouw has been involved with the foundation for many years. She has done research on the role of men in education in Uganda. So not only addressing women, but involving men in this as well. This certainly has an effect, crucial is the way of transmission and involving the men in time for prevention. View the full article here and see our other research projects here.
Our local partner in Sierra Leone is playfully calling on women from the community to come for screening. Colleague Milton, who is not only a social mobilizer but also a musician, has made a cheerful song about the importance of screening. This can be heard on the radio, but a car with speakers also drives into villages to draw the attention of the population. Now that's awareness! Click here for the video.
Read why Eva is an ambassador for the foundation here. Eva Jinek: "It is currently the only cancer in the world that can be completely eradicated....It sounds like a fairy tale. But this method can save lives."
Read more about why Eva Jinek supports our approach and is an ambassador.
This film explains our See & Treat method briefly and powerfully. The method is very cost-effective in combating cervical cancer precursors.
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The Female Cancer Foundation strives for a world without cervical cancer, to be achieved by providing on-site care(screening and treatment), education and research.
FCF combats the development of cervical cancer in the high-risk group: women between 30 and 50 years of age. Usually young women with small children are affected by this poverty-related disease, while they play a crucial role in their families and communities. With every ten euros, FCF helps a woman in the world's most remote areas.
Because a world without cervical cancer is not a utopia but a real goal. After breast cancer, cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women under the age of 45. Worldwide, more than 500 000 women are diagnosed with this form of cancer every year, and approximately half of these women do not survive the disease. The wry thing about these facts is that cervical cancer is preventable and 100% curable if the symptoms are diagnosed and treated in time.
In everything FCF does, local embedding in the health care system is paramount, so that we can hand over the project after 3-5 years. We achieve this through the 'train-the-trainer' principle: local health workers are trained so that they themselves can further spread the knowledge they have acquired within the local community.
With your donation, we can make a direct difference. With your donation, we will screen one or more women and - if necessary - treat her locally so that she does not die needlessly from cervical cancer. Donate and make a difference.
