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