Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer.1 For more information, visit HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer Rates by Race and Ethnicity.

In 2009 (the most recent year numbers are available):

12,357 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer.*2

3,909 women in the United States died from cervical cancer.*2

*Incidence counts cover approximately 90% of the U.S. population; death counts cover approximately 100% of the U.S. population.