A new study conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health indicates more clearly the racial disparity in cervical cancer deaths.
A disease more prominent in countries with less medical advancement, cervical cancer kills Black women in the United States at a rate 77 percent higher than previously thought, and white women are dying at a rate 47 percent higher, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
Previous research that calculated cervical cancer mortality rates included data on women who’ve had hysterectomies. And, researchers state “one in five women in the United States have had a hysterectomy, with the number slightly higher in Black women than white women.”
