Screening for cervical cancer: Prospects for the future

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 1993, Pages 1018-1019

  Solomon, Diane ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; EDITORIAL; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; WART VIRUS;

CERVIX NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0027207589     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/85.13.1018     Document Type: Editorial

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