Neither one-time negative screening tests nor negative colposcopy provides absolute reassurance against cervical cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1649-1656

  Castle, Philip E ^a   Rodríguez, Ana C ^b   Burk, Robert D ^c   Herrero, Rolando ^b   Hildesheim, Allan ^a   Solomon, Diane ^a   Sherman, Mark E ^a   Jeronimo, Jose ^a,d   Alfaro, Mario ^e   Morales, Jorge ^b   Guillén, Diego ^b   Hutchinson, Martha L ^f   Wacholder, Sholom ^a   Schiffman, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PROYECTO EPIDEMIOLÓGICO GUANACASTE   (Costa Rica)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Program for Appropriate Technology in Health   (United States)

^e CAJA COSTARRICENSE DE SEGURO SOCIAL   (Costa Rica)

^f WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Cytology; Guanacaste; Human papillomavirus; Loop electrosurgical excision procedure; Pap smear

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; COLPOSCOPY; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; WART VIRUS;

EID: 68649116565     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.24525     Document Type: Article

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