Why some women are more prone to develop cervical cancer BusinessLineCervical cancer or cancer of the uterine cervix is caused by abnormal growth of cells at cervix, which can spread to other parts of the body. Researchers at the Noida-based ICMR-National Institute of cancer Prevention and Research have found out why some women are prone to this cancer while others are not. This may help develop early diagnostic tests in future. Researchers have found a correlation between the composition of three micro-RNA genes in the DNA and the risk for a person to develop cervical cancer. Micro-RNAs, which are small length genes, remain in the RNA form and do not get tr...