A New Study Shows Cervical Cancer Virus Harder To Clear In Black Women
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April 2, 2012
Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.
Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women are 40 percent more likely to develop cervical cancer and twice as likely to die from it.
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Black women still do not receive enough screening.
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