Benchmarking epidemiological characteristics of cervical cancer in advance of change in screening practice and commencement of vaccination

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-154

  Luke, Colin ^a   Nguyen, Anh Minh ^a   Heard, Adrian ^a   Kenny, Bernadette ^b   Shorne, Lesley ^b   Roder, David ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^b South Australian Cervix Screening Program   (Australia)

^c CANCER COUNCIL SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervix cancer; Histology; Screening; Time trends

Indexed keywords

WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLOMAVIRUS VACCINES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL CLASS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247342532     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2007.00033.x     Document Type: Article

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