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04/15/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Is your PAP smear telling the truth? New research suggests it’s not

Pap smears may no longer be accurate in detecting cervical cancer. Experts in women’s health are now suggesting that a combination of a Pap smear and an HPV test or a sole HPV test is better suited in catching this form of cancer. Cervical cancer is one of the most successfully treatable cancers, if found […]

02/27/2017 / By David Gutierrez

Cervical cancer is killing African American women at twice the previously reported rate in spite of the HPV vaccine

Recent studies supposedly proving the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine manipulated data to make the cervical cancer death rate among black women look much lower than it actually is, according to a study recently published in the journal Cancer. Vaccine supporters had pointed to the studies as evidence that cervical cancer rates have been falling […]

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