Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer Câncer, mulheres e saúde pública: a história do exame para câncer cervical
Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a human malignancy, is often presented as a non-problematic demonstration of the feasibility of such screening. Screening for this tumor became a model for screening for other malignancies: breast, col...
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| Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2010-07-01
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| Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702010000500004 |