Effective screening programmes for cervical cancer in low- and middle-income developing countries

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 954-962

  Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a   Budukh, Atul Madhukar ^b   Rajkumar, Rajamanickam ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Hospital   (India)

^c Christian Fellowship Community Health Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Africa South of the Sahara; Central America; Cervix neoplasms diagnosis prevention and control; Cervix uteri cytology; Developing countries; India; Mass screening organization and administration; South Africa; South America; South East Asia (source: MeSH); Vaginal smears utilization

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; WOMENS HEALTH;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; INCOME; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0034752412     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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