January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and while the death rate of cervical cancer has gone down in recent years, it’s still an issue that plagues millions of American woman. Here are some facts about cervical cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Roughly 13,800 new cases of invasive cervical cancer were expected to be diagnosed in 2020. About 4,290 woman were expected to die from cervical cancer in 2020. Cervical cancer is most frequently diagnosed in women between the ages 35 and 44, with the average age of diagnosis being 50.