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

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...

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Main Authors: Jorge Salmerón-Castro, Eduardo César Lazcano Ponce, Ricardo Pérez Cuevas, Iliana del Río Gómez, Irene Torres Torija, Mauricio Hernández Avila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Series:Cadernos de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X1998000700007&lng=en&tlng=en