title: Cervical cancer and cytology screening in New Zealand.
abstract: Cytology screening, used in New Zealand since 1955 at an intensity comparable to that in Canada generally, has not favourably affected incidence and mortality rates for cervical cancer; these have actually risen significantly in 20 to 34-year-old New Zealand women. Canadian claims that mortality falls are related to intensity of cytological screening are not justifiable, so that the significance of the 'pre-cancers' revealed by cytology and the value of population screening would seem to be doubtful.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000166:cytology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality