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.168401.1
HOUSE MEMORIAL 66
48
TH LEGISLATURE
- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
FIRST SESSION
, 2007
INTRODUCED BY
Mimi Stewart
A MEMORIAL
SUPPORTING DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE DELIVERY
OF RECOMMENDED PAPANICOLAOU AND HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TESTING,
TO MAINTAIN SURVEILLANCE OF CERVICAL PRECANCERS AND TO FORM A
HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS-PAPANICOLAOU ADVISORY PANEL.
WHEREAS, cervical cancer represents approximately three
percent of cancers in women and two percent of all cancer
deaths in New Mexico, and nearly four hundred women in New
Mexico are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year and another
twenty-six die from the disease; and
WHEREAS, cervical cancer is among the cancers that are
most amenable to prevention or secondary intervention through
early detection and screening; and
WHEREAS, two-thirds of the New Mexico women newly
diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer are under the age of