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  • Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, with around 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths each year.
  • Early-stage cervical cancer can be treated effectively, but options for metastatic cases are limited, highlighting the need for better diagnostic methods.
  • This paper reviews cervical cancer biomarkers and the use of electrochemical biosensors for detection, which offer improved sensitivity, cost-effectiveness, and simplicity in analysis compared to traditional methods.

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Cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, following breast, colorectal, and lung cancers. Each year, it accounts for approximately 600,000 new cases and 340,000 deaths. Early-stage cervical cancer is treatable with surgery and chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). However, treatment for metastatic cervical cancer is limited, with bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy being one of the few options, though survival rates remain low. Currently, the diagnosis of cervical cancer primarily relies on Pap smears and colposcopy. Although these methods are essential for detection, they are costly, labor-intensive, and require significant resources. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify effective biomarkers that can detect cervical cancer at an early stage, improving both the accuracy of diagnosis and the efficacy of treatment. Although numerous cervical cancer biomarkers have been identified for the cervical cancer thanks to advances in technology. In recent times, electrochemical methods have proven to be particularly effective in cervical cancer detection. In this paper, we reviewed the important cervical cancer biomarkers and their detection through electrochemical biosensors, which offer advantages such as higher sensitivity, affordability, and ease of analysis. Furthermore, we discussed the limitations and future prospects of electrochemical biosensors in this field.

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