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Cancer Screening
Age and race/ethnicity are predictors of follow-up of ASCUS findings
July 14th, 2005
Age and race/ethnicity are predictors of whether women will receive appropriate follow-up of abnormal cervical cancer screening results, report U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers. V.B. Benard and colleagues conducted a study "to determine whether women in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) who had findings on a Papanicolaou (Pap) test of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) or low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) were followed up in accordance with the interim guidelines for management of abnormal cervical cytology." "For this study period, the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-14)
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