January has been designated by the US Congress as the National Cervical Health Awareness Month. The question is, are you taking good care of your cervix?
Here are two good reasons why you should:
10,000 American women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year and about 3,700 of these cases are fatal.
Even if not fatal, cervical cancer [...]
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According to WBALTV, because pregnant women receive a pap test routinely during their pregnancy, doctors are catching instances of cervical cancer that might have gone undiagnosed. Doctors say some of the women may not have gotten pap tests otherwise.
Though we know pap screens are incredibly important why do we still put these tests off? [...]
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