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Article: Chronic disease reports: deaths from cervical cancer - United States, 1984-1986.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- September 29, 1989
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Chronic Disease Reports: Deaths from Cervical Cancer -- United States, 1984-1986
From 1984 through 1986, cervical cancer (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, Clinical Modification code 180) was the underlying cause of death in a mean of 4543 women per year in the United States.(*) Cervical cancer accounted for [is less than] 3% of U.S. cancer deaths among women and was the 11th most common cause of cancer mortality (1). Worldwide, however, cervical cancer follows breast cancer as the second most common cause of cancer mortality among women (2).
Rates of cervical cancer mortality increase with age; in 1986, 53% of deaths from cervical ...