Urbanization and the incidence of abnormalities of squamous and glandular epithelium of the cervix

Cancer

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 4-8

  Boon, Mathilde E ^a,b   Van Ravenswaay Claasen, Hedda H ^b   Van Westering, Roelof P ^b   Kok, Lambrecht P ^c  

^a LEIDEN CYTOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

^b Org for Cervical Screening W NLD   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma in situ; Bacterial vaginosis; Cervical screening; Human papillomavirus; KOPAC; Squamous intraepithelial lesion; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER SCREENING; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CODING; POSTAL MAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; TECHNIQUE; URBANIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VAGINITIS; WART VIRUS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; CARCINOMA IN SITU; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0037465577     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10924     Document Type: Article

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