A growing number of women have never undergone testing for cervical cancer. This type of cancer is considered one of the most preventable. However, many American women have not been screened.

The proportion of women aged 21 to 29 who have never had a cervical cancer screening was nearly one in three in 2023. This is an increase from approximately one in eight in 2005.

Further details on this trend are available, including information on the increase in unscreened women aged 30 to 65. The findings were published in a study in the JAMA Network Open journal.