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Cervical Cancer
Failure to screen, Pap test failure most common reasons for diagnosis
May 26th, 2005
Increasing Pap screening adherence and improving the accuracy of Pap screening could reduce the incidence of invasive cervical cancer among women with access to screening and could afford earlier detection of cervical cancer, a new study concludes. Cervical cancer is highly preventable and treatable; therefore, the occurrence of an invasive cervical cancer represents a failure in the screening process. To elucidate factors associated with screening failure, Wendy A. Leyden, of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, and colleagues examined the medical records of 833 women enrolled in one of seven comprehensive healthcare plans who were diagnosed with cervical cancer...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-26)
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