Family planning clinics are promoting Cervical Health Awareness Month – and we all should applaud! Per, the National Cervical Cancer Coalition: “Nearly 13,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, but the disease is virtually always preventable with vaccination and appropriate screening (Pap and HPV tests).” We should stand up and applaud: […]
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Improving Cancer Screening Rates in Community Health
Current research and data show that preventative screenings for various forms of cancer help dramatically improve efficacy of treatments and survival rates from catching cancer in its early stages. Despite this evidence, however, rates of these screenings continually fall below national targets from Healthy People 2020 for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers. The largest segments […]
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