Cancer of the cervix. A community approach.
The importance of mass screening for female carcinoma is documented once again, and the results of such a program within a small, closed island population are presented and discussed. A 63.4 per cent participation among 369 eligible females resulted in findings of a 3.0 per cent prevalence of uterine cancer--5 persons with cervical, 4 intraepithelial and 1 invasive, and 2 with endometrial carcinoma. No evidence of ovarian or breast cancer was produced. One interesting observation was that of 2 women with cervical carcinoma in situ who had been married to the same man. The failure of the participants to return at regular intervals on a personal basis for repeat cancer examinations (68 per cent) suggests the ineffectiveness of such as a program to stimulate a sustained awareness of the danger of female carcinoma. Indifference rather than poverty probably accounts for this lack of concern.
Rodenberger
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Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA.
Earle
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Ingalls
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D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008281:Maine / Q000453:epidemiology; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*