Impact of implementing a nationwide cervical cancer screening program on female population coverage by Pap-tests in Estonia

Tumori

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 524-528

  Veerus, Piret ^a   Arbyn, Marc ^b   Amati, Camilla ^c   Baili, Paolo ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical screening program barriers; Estonia; EUROCHIP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STATISTICS; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TRENDS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 77957191947     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089161009600403     Document Type: Article

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