2014, Number 3
Primary care as a fundamental factor in preventing cervical cancer
López ML, Machado ARA, Prevot RY
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Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
The cervical cancer is worldwide the second most common in women. The effective method for early detection of cervical cancer is the test of Papanicolaou or cytology test. In Cuba detection is made in women from 25 to 64 years of age at intervals of three years. Although there is a program for early detection of cervical cancer in Cuba since 1968 it has not yet achieved the expected decrease of morbidity and mortality from this cause. The health area plays an important role in this program both in capturing every woman to perform the cytology test as a quality of sampling because it depends on the sampling of the transformation zone, where it located, more often, cervical cancer, as well as attendance at specialist clinics when the woman shows any cytological abnormality.REFERENCES
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