• Title: PREVENTING CERVICAL CANCER.
• Guest: Diana Ramos.
• Additional Guests: Suzie Carrillo, Damiana Perez Flores.
• Host: Chelis López
• Date: THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2011
• Description: PREVENTING CERVICAL CANCER. Cervical cancer is preventable, with an inexpensive screening that can detect the illness at early stages. Yet research shows that Latinas and African-American women have the highest mortality rates nationwide.
• Genre: News
• Location: Oakland, CA
• Program Number: 6301
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6301
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Health.
• Year: 2011
• Program Name: la_110120.mp3
• Length: 59:09 minutes (54.16 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

PREVENTING CERVICAL CANCER. Cervical cancer is preventable, with an inexpensive screening that can detect the illness at early stages. Yet research shows that Latinas and African-American women have the highest mortality rates nationwide. In California, Latinas are diagnosed with cervical cancer twice as often as white women, and a large number have never had a screening. Experts provide practical advice.

Guests: Diana Ramos, OBGYN, Board Member, California Medical Association Foundation, Los Ángeles, CA. www.thecmafoundation.org ; Suzie Carrillo, Cervical cancer survivor, Redlands, CA. Susie_carrillo@msn.com ; Damiana Perez Flores, Promoter, Latinas Against Cancer, San José, CA. www.latinascontracancer.org