title: Response by Eric Suba to Sankaranarayanan et al.
abstract: During the 1970s and 1980s, reports from several countries documented substantial reductions in incidence rates of cervical cancer and death rates following the introduction of cervical screening and confirmed the role of cervical screening as an archetypal preventive health intervention; moreover, reductions in death rates due to cervical cancer were directly related to levels of screening.
authors.affiliation: Director, Clinical Laboratories, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 350 Saint Joseph Avenue, San Francisco, California 94115. eric.suba@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Eric J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Suba
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control*