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Late-stage cervical cancer is on the rise among white and black women in the United States, according to a new study.
Researchers in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, Los Angeles believe one of the factors leading to the rise in cases is that younger women are being screened less. However, an increasing number of white and black women are suffering from deadly diseases. International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer.
Researchers conducted the study by analyzing data from over 29,000 women from 2001 to 2018 and found that advanced cervical cancer increased by 1.3% annually. White women from her 40s to her 44s living in the South had the highest rate of increase, at a rate of 4.5% per year. A white woman, she increased by 1.69% over the year.
The second highest annual increase rate was 0.67% for black women. However, the study found that the disease was greater in black women, with 1.55 per 100,000 black women diagnosed with cervical cancer compared with 0.92 per 100,000 women. .
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This advanced stage of cancer can be very deadly if left untreated or undetected for a long time. Stage 4 cervical cancer has a 5-year survival rate of 17%.
Alex Francoeur, Ph.D., an OBGYN resident at UCLA and author of the study, hypothesizes that the increase in the disease may be correlated with HPV-unvaccinated women.
“Previous studies have found a sharp decline in cervical cancer among women eligible for the vaccine, which suggests an association between the vaccine and cervical cancer incidence. It shows potential,” Franccourt said in a statement to UPI.
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“We believe that HPV vaccination has reduced the overall incidence of cervical cancer in the United States,” she added. “I think we need to do more research on how to screen underinsured rural and minority populations and keep educating people about the importance of vaccination,” she said.
The American Cancer Society recommends cervical cancer screening every 5 years between the ages of 25 and 65.
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