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Volume 353:2101-2104 November 17, 2005 Number 20 Next

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Cytologic screening has significantly reduced the rates of cervical cancer in many developed countries. However, cervical cancer remains a leading form of cancer among women living in low-resource regions of the world (see map) and often kills women at young ages, when they are still raising families. In these same regions, programs to prevent cervical cancer are unavailable or underfunded because they compete with many other priorities.

View larger version (26K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Incidence of Cervical Cancer Worldwide. Numbers indicate cases per 100,000 population. Data are from the International Association of Cancer Registries, GLOBOCAN 2002.

 
The current standard of cervical-cancer prevention requires three clinical visits: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Schiffman is a senior investigator and Dr. Castle an investigator at the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

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