Cancer screenings are a vital part of a woman’s reproductive and overall health. While breast cancer is the most common reproductive cancer in women, cervical cancer is the third most common type of gynecological cancer, following endometrial and ovarian cancer.

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This type of cancer starts in the cells of the cervix, the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina. In the United States, about 13,000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed, and about 4,000 women die of this type of cancer each year.

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Cervical cancer is most frequently diagnosed in women between the ages of 35 and 44, with an average diagnosis age of 50. It rarely develops in women younger than 20. Many older women don’t realize they are st

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