Can mobile units improve the strategies for cervical cancer prevention?

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 727-730

  Mauad, Edmundo Carvalho ^a   Nicolau, Sérgio Mancini ^b   Gomes, Uilho A ^c   Vieira, René Aloísio Da Costa ^a   Mattos, Jacó Saraiva De Castro ^a   Longatto Filho, Adhemar ^c,d   Baracat, Edmund C ^c  

^a BARRETOS CANCER HOSPITAL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention; Cervical cancer; HPV; Mobile unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILE UNIT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CLASS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 77957721365     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21287     Document Type: Article

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