Cervical cancer: testing can find it early and even prevent it

During the past few decades, screening has reduced deaths from cervical cancer, as doctors have been able to find cancer early and treat it, or prevent it from ever developing. However, those declines have begun to taper off, according to new statistics from the American Cancer Society. From 2005 to 2009, death rates from cervical cancer remained the same. New cases of cervical cancer declined by 3% per year in women 50 and older, but did not decline in younger women. Read more here.