Screening and Management of precancerous Lesions To Prevent: Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource Settings

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 277-280

  Sellors, John ^a   Lewis, K ^a   Kidula, N ^b   Muhombe, K ^c   Tsu, V ^a   Herdman, C ^a  

^a Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)   (Kenya)

^b Kenya Cancer Association ^*

^c Kenya Psychiatric Association   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical intraepithelial neoplasms; Colposcopy; Cryotherapy; LEEP; Low resource settings; Prevention; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLPOSCOPE; CRYOTHERAPY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCER; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; COLPOSCOPES; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0642371414     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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