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Cover: Kathy Giarrano

©Copyright 2002 American Cancer Society, Inc.

About the cover: (Left side from top) 1. Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) taken from Lenhard RE Jr, Osteen RT, Gansler T, eds. Clinical Oncology. Atlanta, GA:American Cancer Society, Inc.; 2001. 2. High-grade SIL courtesy of Diane Solomon, MD, coauthor of American Cancer Society Guideline for the Early Detection of Cervical Neoplasia and Cancer. 3. Invasive squamous cell carcinoma taken from Lenhard RE Jr, Osteen RT, Gansler T, eds. Clinical Oncology. Atlanta, GA:American Cancer Society, Inc.; 2001. (Center) 1. Dr. George Papanicolaou, inventor of the Pap test, in his lab. Location and photographer unknown. 2. Uterine (cervix, corpus, and not otherwise specified) mortality rates calculated by the Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research at the American Cancer Society. Death data taken from the National Vital Statistics System at the National Center for Health Statistics and population data taken from the US Census Bureau. Rates are age adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Historical data for uterine cervix, uterine corpus, and not otherwise specified are not available separately until 1946.