OBJECTIVES Breast and cervical cancer are common among Latinas, but screening rates among foreign-born Latinas are relatively low. In this article we describe the design and implementation of a theory-based (PEN-3) outreach program to promote breast and cervical cancer screening to Latina immigrants, and evaluate the program's effectiveness. METHODS We used data from self-administered questio...

Introduction: Endometrial cancer is the second most common gynecological tumor. There is still no recommended screening method for endometrial cancer. The application of transvaginal sonography, hysteroscopy and Pap test may prove useful in screening for this disease. Atypical glandular cells represent an important finding in Pap tests and they are related to histopathological verification of t...

The cervical smear (Papanicolaou, Pap smear) is a routine screening test used for the detection of early cervical abnormalities, namely precancerous dysplastic changes of the uterine cervix [1], together with viral, bacterial, and fungal infections of the cervix and vagina. Cervical screening is a relatively simple, low cost and noninvasive method. Regular screening for cervical cancer reduces ...

OBJECTIVE To detect the most prevalent human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in cervical smear samples of asymptomatic Peruvian women by analyzing the correlation between Papanicolaou (PAP)-stained cervical tests and PCR-sequencing. METHODS A total of 254 women attending routine gynecological examinations were included in this study. The samples were analyzed by PAP technique and examined unde...

Pap smear test plays an important role for the early diagnosis of cervical cancer in which human cells taken from the cervix of patient are analysed for pre-cancerous changes. The manual analysis of these cells by expert cytologist is labor intensive and time consuming job. The automatic and accurate detection of cervical cells are two critical preprocessing steps for automatic Pap smear image ...

BACKGROUND The objective of the EUROCHIP project in Estonia was to describe the organized cervical cancer screening program started in 2006 (after pilot studies in 2003-2005), to compare its performance with opportunistic screening, and to define priorities for improvement of the program. METHODS Population data was retrieved from Statistics Estonia, data about performed Pap-smear tests withi...

Background: Cervical cancer is the second common among women worldwide. It a preventable cancer, and early detection of precancerous conditions through Papanicolaou cytology screening (Pap smear) key aspect prevention; it accepted worldwide as an efficient tool for secondary prevention. While PS test simple, inexpensive, relatively reliable method diagnosing cervical most do not take test. Ther...

Results: In this study, about 20% were not aware of cervical cancer as a disease.19% knew that Pap smear is used for detection of preinvasive cervical cancer. O About 80% of subjects did not know that it was possible to detect cervical cancer early nor were they aware of different screening methods like Paps smear and had limited understanding of the types of cervical cancer screening technique...

Background: Cervical Cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide approximately 80% of which occurred in developing countries. Out all cervical cases seen world, only 14% are developed countries, while about 86% occurs The leading cause Indian women. usually preceded by a long phase cytological changes, known as intraepithelial neoplastic (CIN) and takes period 15-20 years befo...

Classification of medical imagery is a difficult and challenging process due to the intricacy of the images and lack of models of the anatomy that totally captures the probable distortions in each structure. Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of death among other types of the cancers in women worldwide. Proper and timely diagnosis can prevent the life to some level. Consequently we have...