Nearly 4 Out of 10 Lesbians Not Routinely Screened for Cervical Cancer

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

Nearly 38 percent of lesbians polled in a national survey were not routinely screened for cervical cancer, putting them at risk of developing a highly preventable cancer, according to a University of Maryland School of Medicine study being presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research.

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