January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
In 2018 about 13,240 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in the United States. About, 4,170 women would die from this invasive disease. Despite advancements in treatment and education The 
American Cancer Society estimates that even more women will be diagnosed with this horrible debilitating disease and about 4,280 women will die from it in 2020.
What is standing in the way? Most say affordable health care for women. Cervical pre cancers are more widely diagnosed that ever before. At one time cervical cancer was one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in America.
In America Hispanic women are at the highest risk of death due to cervical cancer, followed by African Americans, followed by American Indians, Alaskan natives and whites. Pacific Islanders and Asians are at lowest risk of developing the disease.
Baltimore County Department of Health's Women's Cancer Program provides No Cost Pap and HPV screenings for it's residents. For more information Call: 410-887-3432
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