From gynaecology offices to screening campaigns: a brief history of cervical cancer prevention in Brazil
This paper discusses the knowledge and medical practices relating to cervical cancer in Brazil. It analyses the growing medical interest in the disease at the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of prevention techniques in the 1940s, and the emergence of screening programs in the 196...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2015-03-01
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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=S0104-59702015000100221&lng=en&tlng=en |