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BY JEFFREY F. HINES, M.D.
January 15, 2007
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A targeted national program including widespread media coverage has increased awareness of breast cancer in the black community, but another group of cancers that strike thousands of African–American women each year has received little attention. Cervical cancer accounts for approximately 13,000 of all new cancer cases among women each year. Some 4,400 women will die each year due to cervical cancer. While the incidence of cervical cancer has steadily decreased over the last three decades among women of all racial and ethnic groups, some differences in survival still exist between African–American women and their white counterparts.
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