Cervical Cancer
Study finds ethnicity link
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 5th, 2003
The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found that older women of all ethnic groups were more likely to show advanced cases of the disease when first diagnosed.
These women sometimes lack easy access to screening tests because of their age, low education, low income and lack of health insurance, the CDC's Dr. Sidibe Kassim said.
"We really need to reach those women," Kassim said.
For the study, the CDC analyzed 14,759 new...
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