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In recent years, Congress has attempted to lend support to various health-related causes by naming official United States awareness days, weeks, and months for specific causes. January has been designated as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and as the observance is fast approaching, here are some tips from the National Cervical Cancer Coalition for spreading the word:
During January, you may wish to highlight issues related to cervical cancer, HPV disease and the importance of early detection. Some of the issues you may wish to highlight are personal stories of women and family members/caregivers battling issues related to their persistent HPV/precancer and/or cervical cancer. You may wish to highlight recent advances and research in the prevention, detection and treatment of cervical cancer or HPV. You can highlight the success of your local/regional early detection cervical cancer screening and treatment programs and human-interest stories on the importance of early detection, education and the emotional issues related to battling cervical cancer and HPV.
Cervical cancer remains one of the top cancer killers of women around the world, despite a significant decline in the death rate over the past fifty years due to wider usage of the Pap test screen. The Women's Cancer Network provides more information about cervical cancer:
*About 9,710 women will find out they have invasive cervical cancer this year.
*This year, about 3,700 women will die from cervical cancer.
*Hispanic women and African-American women are more likely to get cervical cancer than non-Hispanic white women.
*Half of the women who get cervical cancer are between 30 and 55 years of age.
*Nearly all women with cervical cancer have human papillomavirus (HPV).
After the craziness of the holidays, please take the time to spread the word about cervical cancer. Women and BlogHers everywhere need to be aware of this disease and its causes.
