January is Cervical Health Awareness Month

January is designated by the United States Congress as Cervical Health Awareness Month. This is the appropriate time to show your support on the campaign for a healthy cervical cancer.

Cancer of the cervix was once considered as one of the usual causes of cancer death in American women. For the past decades, however, death rate caused by cervical cancer has dramatically gone down by more than 50 percent. One of the reasons for this astonishing change was the increase of those who were encouraged to use screening tests. Screening, which is more commonly known as PAP test, will …read more