{"id":877,"date":"2010-01-06T18:13:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-01-06T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T22:13:45","slug":"january-is-cervical-cancer-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/01\/06\/877\/","title":{"rendered":"January is cervical cancer awareness month&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Cervical cancer\u00a0once was\u00a0the leading cause of cancer death for women in the U.S., and although the cases and deaths of cervical cancer have decreased over the past 40 years due largely to regular Pap tests, the disease still was responsible for almost 4,000 deaths in 2006 (most recent data available). The rates vary somewhat, but not widely, by state. See how your area compares below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Cervical death rates per 100,000 women, United States, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/cervical-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-878\" title=\"Cervical death rates per 100,000 female population, 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/cervical-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more information on cervical cancer, visit <a title=\"Link to CDC's cervical cancer website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/cervical\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/cervical\/index.htm<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more information on cancer mortality, visit <a title=\"Link to NCHS Mortality Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cervical cancer\u00a0once was\u00a0the leading cause of cancer death for women in the U.S., and although the cases and deaths of cervical cancer have decreased over the past 40 years due largely to regular Pap tests, the disease still was responsible for almost 4,000 deaths in 2006 (most recent data available). The rates vary somewhat, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10559,49481,20556,63685,53751,53759],"tags":[63898,63921,63922,16093],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}