BACKGROUND Worldwide cervical cancer is one of the more common forms of carcinoma among women, causing high morbidity and high mortality. Despite being a major health problem in Tanzania, screening services for cervical cancer are very limited, and uptake of those services is low. We therefore conducted a study to investigate utilization of cancer screening services, and its associated factors ...

INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer has long been known as a preventable disease. Yet it still is a prime women's health issue globally. In Malaysia, the current cervical cancer screening program, introduced in the 1960s, has been found to be unsuccessful in terms of Pap smear coverage. The aim of this study is to determine providers perceptives on the program and the feasibility of practicing an orga...

Cervical cancer screening remains a challenge in developing countries due to a complex array of problems. This paper aimed to describe the experience with organization of cervical cancer screening in three districts of Campinas and the surrounding region in São Paulo State, Brazil, and to report the resulting data. The program was organized in a pyramid format, and the health care hierarchy was...

BACKGROUND Assessment of the nursing staff knowledge, attitude and practices about cervical cancer screening in a tertiary care teaching institute of rural India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional, descriptive, interview- based survey was conducted with a pretested questionnaire among 262 staff nurses of a tertiary care teaching and research institute. RESULTS In this study 77% respon...

Organized and opportunistic screening programs for cervical cancer have been very successful in many developed countries with reductions in squamous cell cervical cancer incidence of the order of 70%. In these countries, age specific incidence rates tend to plateau in the age groups in which screening is recommended. In countries where screening programs have not been developed, the incidence o...

PURPOSE To assess knowledge, attitudes and cervical cancer screening behavior of Bangkok Metropolitan women. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thai women, aged 25-to-65 years old, having lived in Bangkok for 5 years or more were invited to participate in the study. After signing informed consent, all women were asked to complete a self-questionnaire (Thai language) with literate assistance if needed. The...

(Abstracted from N Engl J Med 2021;385:1908–1918) In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for elimination of global cervical cancer as a major public health priority, with 2-pronged approach focusing on effective vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) and screening treatment early cancer. Cervical is considered largely preventable through these programs; however, it cont...

Background & aim: Breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers are the leading causes of mortality among women, the incidence rate of which has an upward trend with advancing age. Although cost-effective, easy, and available screening programs can help control these types of cancer in their early stages, it seems that cancer screening programs have not been implemented effectively. In this study, w...

Over the past 50 years, the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer has decreased by 75 percent in developed countries because of the availability of screening program for cervical precancer and human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination. In developing countries, however, cervical cancer remains the second most common type of cancer and cause of cancer death in women. This is most likely due to...

The 2012 national recommendations for cervical cancer screening will produce a lower level of cervical cancer protection than previously afforded by annual cytology or 3-year cotesting. After a single negative cotest result, the risk of cervical cancer is twice as large at 5 years as it is at 3 years. Modeling published since the 2012 guidelines were drafted indicates that extending the cotesti...