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Cervical cancer is making news today!  Are you at risk?  If you haven’t given any thought to whether you are at risk for cervical cancer, now is the time you should.  It’s your health, so you need to know the risks.  

Cervical Cancer Facts 

In America, cervical cancer is the 8th most common type of cancer in American women. More than 10,000 new patients develop cervical cancer each year and 3,600 women in the US die from the advanced form of this disease annually. Over half of the women detected with cervical cancer were between the ages of 35 and 55. Cervical cancer rarely occurs in women under 20 and only about 20% of the infected women are over the age of 65 years according to cervicalcancer.org.

 Screening 

Cervical cancer screening is important to your survival.  A simple screening is all your doctor needs to catch the cancer early.  The earlier it is found; the better.  Screening tests offer one of the best opportunities to detect cervical cancer at an early stage when the success of treatment is most likely. Cervical cancer which is cancer of the cervix might be prevented or at least detected early by getting regular Pap tests. If cervical cancer is detected early, it can be successfully treated.

Detecting this cancer early is extremely important. Make sure that the women in your life get out there to their doctors and get check-ups when they need to. Early detection is a must. 

With the earliest stage of cervical cancer being a stage 0, which is a precancerous stage and about every woman diagnosed and treated during this stage, will be cured. The 5-year survival rate is the percentage of the patients who live at least five years after their initial treatment. The 5-year rate for this stage, stage 0, is 92%. Of course, many people live much longer then the five years. That is according to the cervicalcaner.org statistics.  

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