Stat Bite: Pap Test Abnormalities by Diagnosis
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Incidence of Pap test abnormalities within 3 years of a normal Pap test--United States, 1991-1998.
Declines in cervical cancer incidence and mortality reported in the United States since the 1950s have been attributed to early detection and treatment of precancerous and cancerous lesions through the use of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test (1). More than 50 million Pap tests are performed each year (2); however, guidelines about the frequency of testing in women with a history of normal test resul...
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The aim of this study was to evaluate medical and economic justification of vaginal smears as a part of primary screening for cervical carcinoma and its precursors. Study included 245.048 participants whose VCE (vaginal, cervical, endocervical) smears were examined at Department of clinical cytology of University Hospital Center Osijek from 2003 till 2008. There were 12.639 (5.2%) abnormal find...
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OBJECTIVES This article examines the associations between women's characteristics and getting or not getting a Pap test. DATA SOURCE The data are from the 1994/95 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) conducted by Statistics Canada. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Multivariate logistic regressions were used to determine the odds of women not complying with Pap test guidelines, that is, of never ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/89.7.475