Cervical cancer kills Black women at a disproportionately higher rate than whites
Cervical cancer, which is largely preventable, and if caught early, highly treatable, has an outsized impact on Black women's mortality, a January study finds.
Four years ago, when Kimberly Williams was a 42-year-old mother of two, she received a life-changing cancer diagnosis.
"My doctor called and said that he wanted to see me in his office, so I was very nervous," Williams recalls. "When I went in, he said, 'Kiddo, you have cancer. But we're gonna fight it,' so the feeling I had was being very overwhelmed... I was fearful. I was wondering, 'Oh my God, how long has this been living inside of my body? Am I going to die? Who's going to raise my children?'"
At the time, Williams had never known anyone else who had experienced cervical cancer,
