lucknow the ram manohar lohia institute of medical sciences rmlims on friday signed a memorandum of understanding mou with the john hopkins programme for international education in gynaecology and obstetrics to run a project for strengthening the quality of womens cancer care and health system in the statelead investigator of the project at the rml prof nuzhat hussain said this will enable us to detect cervical cancer at an early stage through screening for better treatment the project will also help in administering the hpv vaccine to prevent sexually transmitted infection among women the mou was signed during an event to make adolescent girls aware of cervical cancer students of kasturba gandhi residential school took part in the event governor and chancellor of state universities anandiben patel was chief guest on the occasion she said that eradication of cervical cancer is possible not only by vaccination but also by healthy lifestyle nutritious food and regular exercise she emphasized that efforts should be made towards the eradication of cervical cancer by organizing programmes like painting speech and other creative works in the school she also invited girl students to the raj bhawan for a debate competition on cancer eradication in a competitive environmenton the occasion doctors also shared that cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among indian women and 80 of the cases are related to hpv virus infection the hpv vaccine is 95 effective against this type of cancer and produces minimal side effectsdeputy chief minister brajesh pathak thanked the governor for her efforts to spread awareness about cervical cancer and vaccination he also assured that all necessary assistance will be given by the state government to the project on this occasion minister of family welfare mayankeshwar sharan singh rmlims director prof sonia nityanand and chief medical superintendent ak singh were also present