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Cervical cancer incidence and risk is underestimated

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Rates of cervical cancer in American women may be higher than previously thought, and the disease may arise most often at an age when adequately screened women are advised to stop getting screened. The findings come from a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.  Removal of the uterine cervix through a hysterectomy eliminates a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer, but previous estimates of cervical cancer rates in the US have included these women in their calculations. €œIn order to make accurate estimates of the true rates of cervical cancer by

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