Cervical screening programme, England: 1997–98

Failures of the cervical cytology screening programme.

Cervical screening and health inequality in England in the 1990s.

STUDY OBJECTIVE s: To examine changing inequality in the coverage of cervical screening and its relation to organisational aspects of primary care and to inequality in cervical cancer incidence and mortality. DESIGN Retrospective time trends analysis (1991-2001) of screening coverage and cervical cancer incidence and mortality in England. SETTING The 99 district health authorities in Englan...

Primary care factors associated with cervical screening coverage in England.

BACKGROUND The National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme was established to decrease the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in England. METHODS To identify socioeconomic and general practice factors associated with cervical screening coverage in England, a national cross-sectional study was conducted using data on 26 497 476 female patients registered with 7970 practices in...

[Results of the Czech National Cervical Cancer screening programme].

INTRODUCTION The nationwide Cervical Cancer Screening Programme in the Czech Republic was introduced in 2009. The aim of this article is to describe the results of this programme in the first few years after its transformation into a fully-fledged, organised programme. MATERIAL AND METHODS During the first few years, a network of 37 accredited laboratories was stabilised, ensuring that examin...

A centralised cytology screening programme for cervical cancer in Florence.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a centralised population based cervical cytology screening programme. DESIGN The study was a case-control investigation. SETTING Cases and controls were confined to the province of Florence. PARTICIPANTS 191 out of 208 cases of cervical cancer in women less than 75 years old at diagnosis in the period 1982-85 were i...