Successes and challenges of establishing a cervical cancer screening and treatment program in western Kenya

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-18

  Khozaim, Kareem ^a   Orang'O, Elkanah ^b,c   Christoffersen Deb, Astrid ^d   Itsura, Peter ^b,c   Oguda, John ^b   Muliro, Hellen ^b   Ndiema, Jackline ^b   Mwangi, Grace ^b   Strother, Matthew ^a   Cu Uvin, Susan ^e   Rosen, Barry ^d   Washington, Sierra ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOI TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^c MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer screening; Loss to follow up; Sub Saharan Africa; Visual inspection with acetic acid

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYSTERECTOMY; KENYA; LOOP ELECTRICAL EXCISION PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR INVASION; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING; LOSS TO FOLLOW-UP; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VISUAL INSPECTION WITH ACETIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891160932     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: 18793479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2013.06.035     Document Type: Article

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