{"id":2613,"date":"2015-01-30T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2015-01-30T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:30:21","slug":"cervical-health-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/01\/30\/2613\/","title":{"rendered":"Cervical Health Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.nchstats.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/features\/marketplace-women\/marketplace-women_456px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>This month is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/dcpc\/resources\/features\/CervicalCancer\/\">Cervical Health Awareness Month<\/a>.\u00a0 Cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death among U.S. women.\u00a0 From 1999-2013, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\">60,378 deaths<\/a> from cervical cancer with 4,217 deaths in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0The age-adjusted death\u00a0rate per 100,000 for U.S. women dropped from 2.8 in 1999 to 2.3 in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The cervical death rate for non-Hispanic black females was nearly double the rate for non-Hispanic white females and\u00a0 higher than the rate for Hispanic females.<\/p>\n<p>From 1999 to 2013, cervical cancer death rates have decreased 31% for Hispanic females, 26% for non-Hispanic black females, and 16% for non-Hispanic white females.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/ahcd\/namcs_summary\/2010_namcs_web_tables.pdf\">29.4 million<\/a> physician office visits during which Pap tests were ordered or provided.<\/p>\n<p>More information on cervical cancer can be found below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/cervical\/\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/cervical\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6402a4.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6402a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month is Cervical Health Awareness Month.\u00a0 Cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death among U.S. women.\u00a0 From 1999-2013, there were 60,378 deaths from cervical cancer with 4,217 deaths in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0The age-adjusted death\u00a0rate per 100,000 for U.S. women dropped from 2.8 in 1999 to 2.3 in 2013. The cervical death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63921,63957,63972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}