Although incidence rates are increasing, early detection and improved treatment have kept mortality rates stable over the past 50 years. In recent decades, cervical cancer has declined in incidence and mortality. Since 1950, the incidence of cervical cancer has decreased 76 percent and mortality from the disease has decreased 74 percent, attributed to widespread use of the Pap test. Since the early 1980s, however, the rate of decline of invasive cervical cancer has leveled. The American Cancer Society estimates 15,000 new cases of cervical cancer and 4,600 deaths in 1994.
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