Booklet: What You Need to Know about Cervical Cancer

Introduction

Each year, about 15,000 women in the United States learn that they have cancer of the cervix. This National Cancer Institute (NCI) booklet will give you some important information about cancer of the cervix and about some conditions that may lead to this disease. You can read about prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. This booklet also has information to help you deal with cancer of the cervix if it affects you or someone you know.

Words that may be new to readers appear in italics. Definitions of these words and other terms related to cancer can be found in the Glossary. For some words, a "sounds-like" spelling is also given.

Other NCI booklets are listed in the Other Booklets section. Our materials cannot answer every question you may have about cancer of the cervix. They cannot take the place of talks with doctors, nurses, and other members of the health care team. We hope our information will help with those talks.

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