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Increase Cervical Cancer Screening
among Latinas with AMIGAS
AMIGAS is a bilingual
educational outreach intervention designed to help promotoras
(community
health workers) and other lay health educators increase cervical cancer
screening among Hispanics who have rarely or never had a Pap test. Updated
materials are now available for download.
Update:
Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with
Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States (Including U.S. Territories), July
2017
CDC has updated the interim guidance for U.S. health care
providers caring for pregnant women with possible Zika virus exposure in
response to 1) declining prevalence of Zika virus disease in the World Health
Organization’s Region of the Americas and 2) emerging evidence indicating
prolonged detection of Zika virus immunoglobulin M antibodies.
Surveillance
of high-grade cervical cancer precursors (CIN III/AIS) in four population-based
cancer registries, United States, 2009–2012
This
report analyzes population-based rates of high-grade cervical cancer precursor
lesions using data from four central cancer registries (diagnosis years
2009-2012 from Louisiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and diagnosis years 2011-2012
from Los Angeles) by age, race, and histology.
Pregnant?
Get vaccinated.
Learn about the vaccines you
need before and during your pregnancy to help protect yourself and your newest
family member from serious diseases.
Seven
Things You May Not Know about Women's Health
You may be surprised to learn about
some health issues that affect millions of women or girls each year. Learn
about some of them and what you can do.
Racial
and Ethnic Disparities among State Medicaid Programs for Breast Cancer Screening
This report uses
2006–2008 data from Medicaid claims and enrollment files to assess racial or
ethnic and geographic disparities in the use of breast cancer screening among
Medicaid-insured women at the state level.
New Skin Cancer Prevention Progress Report Available
The 2017 Skin
Cancer Prevention Progress Report highlights new data, developments, and
success stories since the release of the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer.
New Public Use Cancer Database Available
CDC has released a public use research National Program of Cancer Registries and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Incidence – United States Cancer Statistics database that provides cancer data from all 50 U.S. states, Washington
D.C., and Puerto Rico.
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