Nearly a third of women in their 20s have never been screened for cervical cancer

Rising rates of late-stage cervical cancer diagnoses among women ages 30-64 indicate delayed detection and potentially worse health outcomes.

Cervical cancer remains among the most preventable of human diseases, yet a quiet withdrawal from preventive care is unfolding across a generation of young women in the United States. Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have found that nearly one in three women in their twenties has never once been screened, a proportion rising steadily for two decades, while late-stage diagnoses among older women suggest the cost of that absence is already being paid. The tools exist — a vaccine, a screening test — but they are reaching fewer people, and the gap falls hardest on those already most vuln

Nearly a third of women in their 20s have never been screened for cervical cancer

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