title: Twenty-five years of medical colposcopic rural tours in the Republic of Panama: commitment and integration in screening 1983-2008.
abstract: Between the years 1983 and 2008, colposcopic rural tours were carried out which covered six provinces of the Republic of Panama, in which women in those areas were offered the opportunity of a preventive cervical-uterine cancer screening, applying cytology, colposcopy and directed biopsies (in those cases requiring it), as well as immediate treatment. The years of follow-up, especially in the community of Pocri de Los Santos, confirmed that application of the diagnostic methodology was successful, as an initial diagnosis, evolution and a closing prognosis were achieved. The prognosis is of utmost importance because it illuminated the response to the applied conservative treatments and moreover it pointed out zero evolutionary cancer.
authors.affiliation: National Association, Against Cancer (ANCEC) Social Security Foundation (CSS) Ministry of Health (MINSA), Panama City, Panama. jolgarrido@hotmail.com
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Garrido
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003127:Colposcopy; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010176:Panama; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D055815:Young Adult