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#cervical — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cervical, aggregated by home.social.

  1. "Continued reductions in #cancermortality because of drops in smoking, better treatment, and earlier detection is certainly great news. However, this progress is tempered by rising incidence in young and middle-aged women, who are often the family caregivers, and a shifting cancer burden from men to women, harkening back to the early 1900s when #cancer was more common in women.

    Another nationwide study from earlier this year found that between 1975 and 2020, almost 6 million deaths from five of the most common cancers (#breast, #cervical, #colorectal, #lung and #prostate cancer) were averted through a combination of #prevention, #screening, and improved #treatments."

    sciencealert.com/death-rate-fr