Cervical cancer in India ranks as the 2nd most frequent cancer among women and the 2nd most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age. As per National Cancer Registry, crude incidence and mortality rate due to cervical cancer in India is 134 per 1,000 and 74 per 1,000 women respectively. Age adjusted incidence rate of cervical cancer reported for six cities are - Bangalore 18.1, Bhopal 18.7, Chennai 24.8, Delhi 17.6 and Mumbai 13.0 per 100,000 (Indian Council of Medical Research, 2006). Several screening methods, both traditional and newer technologies, are available to screen women for cervical pre cancers and cancers. No screening test is perfect and hence the choice of screening test will depend on the setting where it is to be used. In this article, the recommendations for screening and prevention of cervical cancer are discussed. Keywords: Cervical cancer; Screening; Prevention; Recommendations

Recent advances in nanotechnology may offer new hope for significant improvement in the success of cancer treatment, especially in preventing tumor growth and progression. Having grown exponentially, the focus of nanotechnology has been on engineering diversified novel applications that even go beyond therapeutic activity; nanotechnology also offers the ability to detect diseases, such as cancer, much earlier than ever imaginable. Nanoparticles with enhanced surface properties are able to diffuse with greater ease inside the tumor cells delivering a high amount of drug selectively to tumor cells with significant reduced toxicity. The association of chemotherapeutic agents with nanoparticles offers improvement in the solubility and stability of antitumor agents, avoidance of drug degradation, and reductions in therapeutic dose and toxicity, increasing drug levels in tumor tissue and decreasing them in healthy tissue. In this review, we discuss the current state of research on applications of nanoparticles (NPs) for cancer therapy, diagnosis and also advance of nanoparticles. Keywords: Nanotechnology; Nanoparticles; Liposome; Micelles; Quantum dot; Gold nanoparticles, Magnetic nanoparticles; Carbon nanotubes; Dendrimers; Cancer therapy; Cancer biomarkers