'Disease Of Poverty': University Of South Carolina Releases Journal On Cervical Cancer, Health Disparities

December 14, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

African-American women in South Carolina are 37 percent more likely to have cervical cancer than white women and have a death rate that is about 61 percent higher, according to a study by researchers at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health. South Carolina ranks 14th in the nation in deaths from cervical cancer…