Proposal to institutionalize criteria and quality standards for cervical cancer screening within a health care system Proposta de regulamentação de critérios e padrões de qualidade para rastreamento de câncer de colo uterino em um sistema de atenção à saúde

• Main Authors: Jorge Salmerón-Castro (Author), Eduardo César Lazcano Ponce (Author), Ricardo Pérez Cuevas (Author), Iliana del Río Gómez (Author), Irene Torres Torija (Author), Mauricio Hernández Avila (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The uterine cervix is the most common cancer site for females. Approximately 52,000 new cases occur annually in Latin America, thus the need to improve efficiency and effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening Programs (CCSP) is mandatory to decrease the unnecessary suffering women must bear. This p...