Browsing: Rositch’s team found that U.S. cervical cancer deaths are 77 percent higher among Black women and 47 percent higher among white women than previously thought.

      The number of women who die from cervical cancer in the United States may be higher than previously believed, and the risk is greatest among older and Black women, a new study finds.” This is a preventable disease and women should not be getting it, let alone dying from it,” study leader Anne Rositch, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a Hopkins news release.