Women living in 3,712 redlined U.S. census-tracts, especially in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, were 79 percent less likely than women living in A (“Best”) areas to meet cervical cancer screening targets. Poverty, lack of education and limited English proficiency were among the most significant barriers. See “Historic redlining practices cast a …
Mailing human papillomavirus (HPV) self-collection tests and offering assistance to book screening appointments to under-screened, low-income women improved cervical cancer screening nearly two-fold compared to scheduling assistance alone. “Many hadn’t engaged in the screening system for a while and getting the kit to their homes helped break down a fundamental barrier,” said researcher Jennifer Smith, …
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Three of four women say they have received a cervical cancer screening at some point in their lives, according to an online national survey of 3,204 women conducted in November and December, 2022. However, White women are more likely to have received a cervical cancer screening (81%) than Black women (65%), Asian women (66%), and …
Researchers observed a nearly twofold higher rate of missed or lack of guideline cervical cancer screening among White women compared with Black women (26.6% vs. 13.8%), according to a study of more than 29,000 diagnosed with the cancer from 2001 to 2018. The largest rate of increase in distant-stage (advanced) cervical cancer is occurring among …
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Breast cancer screening rates from January 2021 to October 2021 did not return to pre-pandemic levels, resulting in 9,000 missed cervical cancer screenings, according to a new study. In addition to the human toll of not detecting cancer early, when cancers are found at an advanced stage they are more extensive, more likely to spread …
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A new study showing that the percent of women overdue for cervical screening has nearly doubled since 2005 is a “catastrophe,” says cancer specialist Maurie Markman, MD (above) of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. “We have the potential of coming as close to eliminating a cancer as one can come to,” he said. The …
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While all women can develop cervical cancer, Black women are more likely to be diagnosed and die of cervical cancer, compared to white women in the U.S., says Olivia Cardenas-Trowers, MD, a Mayo Clinic urogynecologist (above). This disparity is not due to genetic differences among white, Black or Hispanic women, but rather related to systemic …
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Asian and Hispanic women were much less likely than White and Black women to be currently following cervical cancer screening recommendations, according to a nationally representative survey of more than 20,000 women. About 30 percent of Asian and Hispanic women ages 21 to 65 were not up-to-date with their screening, compared with about 22 percent …
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Black women area more likely to be screened for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers than White, Hispanic or other racial/ethnic groups of women, according to a 2018 government health survey. For breast cancer, 84 percent of Black women had been screened versus 80 percent of Hispanic women, 78 percent of White women, and 78 percent …
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A substantial proportion of women who were not vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV) never received cervical cancer screening or were not up to date on screening recommendations in 2019, according to a study of 2019 data by Kalyani Sonawane (above) and her colleagues. Asian women aged 21 to 39 were significantly less likely than White …
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