Screening: Cervical cancer in rural India

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 384-385

  Miller, Anthony B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SCREENING; COLPOSCOPY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RURAL AREA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINAL LAVAGE; WART VIRUS; ADULT; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR; VIROLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 70349568848     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2009.85     Document Type: Article

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