STUDY OBJECTIVE s: To examine changing inequality in the coverage of cervical screening and its relation to organisational aspects of primary care and to inequality in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. DESIGN Retrospective time trends analysis (1991-2001) of screening coverage and cervical cancer incidence and mortality in England. SETTING The 99 district health authorities in Englan...

Cervical cancer is preventable and curable. Sarah Butler Yvonne Wilkinson explain how the cervical screening programme has changed from a cytology based test to HPV primary Screening for human papillomavirus now in England, Wales Scotland. those individuals with cervix routinely occurs every 3 years aged 25–49 (24½ England) 5 50–64. Over 99.7% of cancers are caused by papillomavirus. curable; c...

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BACKGROUND Senegal ranks 15th in the world in incidence of cervical cancer, the number one cause of cancer mortality among women in this country. The estimated participation rate for cervical cancer screening throughout Senegal is very low (6.9% of women 18-69 years old), especially in rural areas and among older age groups (only 1.9% of women above the age of 40 years). There are no reliable e...

BACKGROUND Despite having high cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates, screening for cervical precancerous lesions remains infrequent in sub-Saharan Africa. The need to screen HIV-positive women because of the higher prevalence and faster progression of cervical precancerous lesions may be heightened by the increased access to highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Policymakers ne...

OBJECTIVE To describe how demographic characteristics and knowledge of cervical cancer influence screening acceptance among women living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. METHODS Multistage cluster sampling was carried out in 45 randomly selected streets in Dar es Salaam. Women between the ages of 25-59 who lived in the sampled streets were invited to a cervical cancer screening; 804 women accepted...

OBJECTIVES Cancer screening is a form of secondary prevention for a disease which is now the leading cause of death in France. Various socioeconomic indicators have been identified as potential factors for disparities in breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening uptake. We aimed to identify the socioeconomic inequalities, which persisted in screening uptake for these cancers, and to quan...

human papillomaviruses (hpvs) infect mucosal and cutaneous epithelia and cause malignant and benign neoplastic lesions. human papillomaviruses cause 250000 deaths per year from cervical cancer most often in developing countries. this major public health problem make them important targets in the search for human papillomaviruses detection methods that may play a role in cervical cancer screenin...

Cervical cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy in Korean women. Although age-standardized cancer incidence rate of cervical cancer has decreased from 18.6 per 100,000 women in 1999 to 12.3 per 100,000 women in 2010 in Korea with widespread routine screening, several epidemiologic characteristics are still present. Incidence of cervical cancer still varies according to geogra...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the third most commonly occurring cancer among women and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide, with more than 85 % of these cases occurring in developing countries. These global disparities reflect the differences in cervical cancer screening rates between high-income and medium- and low-income countries. At 19 %, El Salvador has the...