HPV Screening for Cervical Cancer in Rural India
Author(s) -
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan,
Bhagwan M. Nene,
Surendra S. Shastri,
Kasturi Jayant,
Richard Muwonge,
Atul Budukh,
Sanjay Hingmire,
Sylla G. Malvi,
Ranjit Thorat,
Ashok Kothari,
Roshan F. Chinoy,
Rohini Kelkar,
Shubhada Kane,
Sangeetha Desai,
Vijay R. Keskar,
Raghevendra Rajeshwarkar,
Nandkumar Panse,
Ketayun A. Dinshaw
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0808516
Subject(s) - medicine , colposcopy , cervical cancer , cervix , hazard ratio , incidence (geometry) , cancer , confidence interval , gynecology , obstetrics , cytology , pathology , physics , optics
In October 1999, we began to measure the effect of a single round of screening by testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), cytologic testing, or visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid (VIA) on the incidence of cervical cancer and the associated rates of death in the Osmanabad district in India.
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