title: Cervical cancer screening: Epidemiology as the necessary but not sufficient basis of public health practice.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Genetics Branch, NCI, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: schiffmm@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schiffman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D065006:Papanicolaou Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015980:Public Health Practice; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014626:Vaginal Smears