Cervical cancer screening in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2016 Oct;135(1):119. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2016.04.010. Epub 2016 Jul 2.

Authors

Melissa K Frey¹, Nicole Roselli², Erin Gertz³, Juan Chumil Cuc⁴, Leslie Boyd², Taraneh Shirazian⁵

Affiliations

¹ New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: melissa.frey@nyumc.org.
² New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
³ Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Centro de Salud de Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala.
⁵ Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Saving Mothers, a 501c3 medical non-profit organization, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 27451397
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2016.04.010

No abstract available

Keywords: Cervical cancer; Guatemala; Papanicolaou; Screening; Visual inspection with acetic acid.

MeSH terms

Early Detection of Cancer / methods*
Female
Guatemala
Humans
Mass Screening / economics*
Papanicolaou Test
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / diagnosis
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Vaginal Smears