Cervical cancer screening in medically underserved California Latina and non-Latina women: Effect of age and regularity of Pap testing

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 372-379

  Howell, Lydia Pleotis ^a   Gurusinghe, Sunitha ^b   Tabnak, Farzaneh ^c   Sciortino, Stan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cancer Detection Section   (United States)

^c Infectious Diseases Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

ASC H; ASC US; Cancer screening; Carcinoma in situ; CATMOD; Cervical dysplasia; Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Health disparities; HSIL; LSIL; Multi category regression; Papanicolaou test; Squamous cell cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 67349233085     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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