Incidence of Cervical Cancer in Puerto Rico, 2001-2017

JAMA Oncol. 2021 Mar 1;7(3):456-458. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.7488.

Ana Patricia Ortiz^{1

2}, Karen J Ortiz-Ortiz^{1

2

3}, Vivian Colón-López¹, Guillermo Tortolero-Luna^{1

3}, Carlos R Torres-Cintrón³, Chi-Fang Wu⁴, Ashish A Deshmukh⁴

¹ Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
² Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
³ Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry, Cancer Control and Population Sciences Division, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
⁴ Center for Health Services Research, Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas.

Abstract

This cohort study examines recent trajectories in the incidence of cervical cancer in Puerto Rico by age and among birth cohorts.