Link between nationality and cervical cancer

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Tue, 09/02/2008 - 23:00

(Karolinska Institutet) Gynecological screening tests for cervical cancer have been available to all women in Sweden for almost four decades.

Despite this, many immigrant women have a higher risk of developing the disease than Swedish-born women, according to a new study from the medical university Karolinska Institutet.

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