Background and Purpose: Cervical cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women in the world. Cervical cancer is no symptoms and can be treated if diagnosed in the first stage of the disease. The aim of this study was to survey the affecting factors of the Pap smears test on perceptual factors, enabling and reinforcing (PEN-3) model constructs in women. Materials and Methods:...

background: cervical cancer is one of the prevalent and mortal cancers. the aim of the study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of women toward this cancer and pap smear. methods: we carried out a cross-sectional study among 402 women through a questionnaire with 5 socio-demographic parameters and 14 questions about knowledge, attitude and practice. we aimed to know how knowledge, at...

Dr. Pan and colleagues in this issue commented that there is a substantial policy favoring and emphasis on early detection and treatment of various kinds of cancers prevalent in developed countries. In Taiwan, the government not only provides Pap smears for cervical cancer screening, but has maintained a nationwide, free and biennial mammographic screening program since 2004. There was a signif...

CONTEXT Most US women who have undergone hysterectomy are not at risk of cervical cancer-they underwent the procedure for benign disease and they no longer have a cervix. In 1996, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommended that routine Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening is unnecessary for these women. OBJECTIVE To determine whether Pap smear screening among women who have undergone hys...

The aim of this study was to analyze the correlation between the first diagnosis of high-grade Vaginal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (HG-VaIN: VaIN 2-VaIN 3) and the cytological abnormalities on the referral pap smear.All the women with histological diagnosis of HG-VaIN consecutively referred to the Gynecological Oncology Unit of the Aviano National Cancer Institute (Aviano, Italy) from January 199...

The reading programs at Rhode Island College, Providence College and Roger Williams University selected the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, as required summer reading for incoming freshman last year. This book is a nonfiction biography of a poor, black, working mother of five children who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31. The work is a masterpiece of invest...

OBJECTIVE Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of death in many developing countries because limited screening by Papanicolaou (Pap) smear. We sought to better understand women's beliefs about cervical cancer and screening in Botswana, a middle-income African country with high rates of cervical cancer. METHODS We interviewed 289 women attending general medicine or human immunodeficiency vi...