Cervical Cancer

Treatment May Reduce Disease Among Latinas, Other Ethnic Groups

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 15th, 2001

Reducing cervical cancer deaths among American Latinas will require more concerted educational programs and streamlined office visits, a University of California Irvine College of Medicine study has found.

The study, conducted with more than 500 patients at clinics at the UCI Medical Center, indicates that physicians and public health departments need to design more sensitive, convenient forms of health care access and find ways to increase awareness of the risks of the disease. The study's results were presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cervical cancer is second only to breast cancer in...

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