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Cervical Cancer
Cytologic examination of pregnant women helps find cervical neoplasia
January 6th, 2005
According to a report from Japan, "Recently, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare proposed that cervical cancer screening should be conducted for women aged 20 to 29 years old in Japan. "However, there are insufficient data available in Japan concerning the screening conducted for women under the age of 30. Therefore, we made a survey of the results of cervical cytologic examination for pregnant women," said Y. Abe and colleagues, Tohoku University. Data were obtained from 28,616 pregnant women. "A group of 108,289 women, subjected to group screening for cervical cancer in Miyagi Prefecture, were studied as a control group." ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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