Translating evidence into practice in low resource settings: Cervical cancer screening tests are only part of the solution in rural India

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4169-4172

  Isaac, Rita ^a   Finkel, Madelon ^b   Olver, Ian ^c   Annie, I K ^a   Prashanth, H R ^a   Subhashini, J ^a   Viswanathan, P N ^a   Trevena, Lyndal J ^d  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer cervix; community awareness; low resource setting; screening; VIA screening test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873653932     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.8.4169     Document Type: Article

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