Cervical Cancer Screening (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (09/22/2017)

Description of the Evidence

Added text to state that when corrected for the prevalence of hysterectomy, the mortality rate for black women is nearly twice the mortality rate for white women (cited Beavis et al. as reference 2).

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