Program targets cervical cancer
CHAMPAIGN – Three Urban League organizations in central Illinois are digging in to fight cervical cancer – a disease that kills nearly 4,000 women in the U.S. a year.
A new pilot program called Illinois Women Against Cervical Cancer – being kicked off Wednesday in Springfield – will be steered by the Urban League organizations in Champaign County, Springfield and Peoria.
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