Jared Hirschfield & Varuna Srinivasan, MBBS, MPH, National Center for Health Research Cervical cancer is cancer in the cells lining the cervix, the narrow passage between the uterus and vagina. This cancer is usually diagnosed in women between the ages of 35 and 44.1 Each year in the United States, approximately 13,000 women are diagnosed with […]
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Prostate cancer is the #1 cancer in men so screening seems like an important way to prevent cancer. But there is a hot debate within the medical community: do regular prostate cancer screenings do more harm than good?
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