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Study finds ethnicity link.(to cervical cancer )(Brief Article)
2003 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hispanic women contract cervical cancer almost twice as often as other women, indicating that not enough of them are having Pap tests, U.S. health officials say.
The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found that older women of all ethnic groups were more likely to show advanced cases of the disease when first diagnosed.
These women sometimes lack easy access to screening tests because of their age, low education, low income and lack of health insurance, the CDC's Dr. Sidibe Kassim said.
"We really need to reach those women," Kassim said.
For the study, the CDC analyzed 14,759 new invasive cervical cancer cases between 1992 and 1999. The disease was found at a rate of 16.9 per 100,000 Hispanic women 30 and older, compared with 8.9 per 100,000 non-Hispanic women.
Forty percent of the patients were diagnosed with advanced cases of the disease; among women 50 or older, the rate rose to 52%.
The government noted the high rates came in the face ...
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