Cervical cancer screening strategies for developing countries

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Richart, Ralph M ^a   Robles, Sylvia ^b   Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^c   Wright, Thomas C ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

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EID: 0347748085     PISSN: 00136654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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