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Breaking barriers and improving access: Providers hopeful that cervical cancer self-test will increase screening rates

PHOENIX – Dr. Gail Petersen Hock was making dinner for her family on a Friday night in 1982 when her OB-GYN called her. “He said, ‘I want you to sit down,’” she recalled. “‘We found cancer in your cervix, and you need to have surgery next week.’” “It was a surprise to me,” she said. […]