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Cancer mortality rates fall across Canada, but progress stalls on cervical cancer (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Cervical cancer screening rates plummeted during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer people have a family doctor to remind them when they’re due for a Pap or HPV test, and screening may simply not be top of mind for women in early middle age.

Cancer mortality rates continue to fall in Canada, driven by decreases in the death rates from lung and colorectal cancer, but progress has stalled against one type of cancer that is entirely preventable.

Cervical cancer rates have plateaued, according to a major report on cancer trends published every two years by Statistics Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society.

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