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Article: Women Urged to Get Screened for Cervical Cancer During January, Cervical Cancer Screening Month; National Cervical Cancer Public Education Campaign Stresses Ability of Women to Prevent Disease by Taking Action.
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- January 6, 2004
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CHICAGO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- To mark January 2004 as Cervical Cancer Screening Month, the National Cervical Cancer Public Education Campaign today urged women to get screened for cervical cancer in order to prevent the disease.
"During January, Cervical Cancer Screening Month, it is critical that women take time to educate themselves about cervical cancer and understand that this disease is preventable," said Karl C. Podratz, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, the Campaign's lead partner. "With cervical cancer, women hold their destinies in their own hands. Since this is the one gynecologic cancer we can generally prevent or detect ...