Proposal to institutionalize criteria and quality standards for cervical cancer screening within a health care system

• Главные авторы: Jorge Salmerón-Castro (Автор), Eduardo César Lazcano Ponce (Автор), Ricardo Pérez Cuevas (Автор), Iliana del Río Gómez (Автор), Irene Torres Torija (Автор), Mauricio Hernández Avila (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.
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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...