A recent study found that rates of advanced adenocarcinoma affecting the cervix are increasing, with Black women more likely to develop advanced cervical cancer.
Late-stage cervical cancer rates are on the rise in the U.S. with the steepest increases in white women, although the prevalence of the disease is still highest in Black women, a new study finds.
“Paradoxically, when we look at early stage cancer, we see that it has decreased, but when you look at stage IV metastatic cervical cancer, the opposite is true: The rates have increased,” said the study’s first author, Dr. Alex Francoeur, a fourth year OB-GYN resident at the University of California, Los Angeles.The steepest increase in the rates of late-stage cervical cancer, 4.
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