BATON ROUGE — Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for women in the United States, but the death rate has dropped by more than half since the 1970s.
It is thanks to prevention and screening, and now the American Cancer Society is updating screening guidelines.
First, the bad news, in the U.S. this year alone, it’s estimated that more than 13,000 new cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed, and more than 4,000 women will die from the disease, but the good news is those numbers have dropped dramatically over the years, but not everywhere…