News
10 November 2014

Latest edition of Vital Signs Issue: Cervical Cancer is Preventable

Check out the November 2014 Vital Signs Report!
 

Header Paragraph

This month’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Vital Signs Report focuses on cervical cancer in the United States revealing that while cervical cancer is largely preventable through screening tests and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, there are still 12,000 cases every year.

 

Key points in the Vital Signs report include:

  • More than 4,000 women die of cervical cancer each year
  • As many as 93% of cervical cancers could be prevented by screening and HPV vaccination
  • In 2012, 8 million US women had not been screened as recommended in the last 5 years
  • Every visit to doctors and nurses is an opportunity to prevent cervical cancer

Visit the cervical cancer screening Vital Signs Web page to access the report which includes a Vital Signs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), fact sheet and other materials.

To learn more and sign up to receive Vital Signs each month, please visit Vital Signs.

Last update

Friday 07 June 2019

Share this page