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Addressing Cervical Cancer In Central Appalachia, Baretta R. Casey, Richard A. Crosby, Wallace Bates, Tonya D. Godsey, Mark B. Dignan
Addressing Cervical Cancer In Central Appalachia, Baretta R. Casey, Richard A. Crosby, Wallace Bates, Tonya D. Godsey, Mark B. Dignan
Center of Excellence in Rural Health Presentations
Rural women, particularly those residing in Appalachia, have some of the nation’s highest cervical cancer mortality rates. With support from federal and private grants, the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health-Hazard is attempting to address this issue. Eastern Kentucky-based researchers are surveying 18- to 26-year-old female community health center patients and college students about their risk factors for the disease, and then offering them free Gardasil, a vaccine against the virus that causes most cervical cancer cases.