**Meet the editor**

Rajamanickam Rajkumar is a Professor of Community Medicine and PhD guide at Meenakshi Medical College, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India. He won a meritorious gold medal for his research on Leprosy Eradication in India, during his MD, which he passed with distinction in 1993. With IARC, he initiated a Rural Population-Based Cancer Registry, in 1996. He was honored

with a PhD degree, from Open University of Colombo, for this pioneer work. He received training in Colposcopy and Pre-cancer management, in the UK, Ireland, and Singapore. In 2001, he implemented a large-scale Cervical Cancer screening program, using the village-level health workers/ nurses and VIA screening technology. This project of IARC was a great success. In 2011, in collaboration with the Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, Singapore, and the Ohio State University Medical Center, USA, he formed a society for training doctors and nurses in cervical cancer prevention. In 2012, he received the "Best Teacher and Research Award" from Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research, MAHER, Chennai, India.

In 2016, he formed a network of medical and nursing colleges to undertake cervical cancer and HPV screening programs, among the most underserved and unreached poor women of rural India. From 2017, he has been involved in Primordial Prevention of HPV and guiding PhD research, in Cancer Prevention, at national and international universities. He invites international collaborations in Cervical Cancer Prevention and HPV vaccines and research. For 2018, he has planned for cohort studies to find out the recurrence rate and incidence of invasive cancers in CIN-treated women; this will all be an important study in the field of cervical cancer prevention and control.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Introductory Chapter 1**

**Section 2 Cervical Cancer 13**

**and Prevention 3** Rajamanickam Rajkumar

and Maria Clara Bicho

Chapter 3 **Uterine Cervical Cancer Screening 31** Doris Barboza and Esther Arbona

**Section 3 Cervical Cancer Sreening 29**

and Hiroshi Takagi

**Section 4 Cervical Pre Cancer 57**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Cervical Cancer - Screening, Treatment**

Chapter 2 **Microenvironment in Vagina as a Key-Player on Cervical**

Chapter 4 **Great Role in Gynecological Cancer Prophylaxis of a Unique**

Chapter 5 **Secondary Prevention of Uterine Cervical Cancer 59**

Seiya Sato and Hiroaki Itamochi

**Vaginal Microbiome as Co-Factors 15**

**Cancer: Interaction of Polymorphic Genetic Variants and**

Andreia Matos, Alda Pereira da Silva, Rui Medeiros, Manuel Bicho

**Health Check-Up Institute, Ningen Dock in Japan (Review) 45** Atsushi Imai, Hiroyuki Kajikawa, Chinatsu Koiwai, Satsoshi Ichigo
