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CERVICAL CYTOLOGY FOR CANCER DETECTION IN QUEENSLAND AND PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA
Author(s) -
Gutteridge N. M.,
FirouzAbadi A.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb77756.x
Subject(s) - new guinea , cervical cancer , cancer detection , subtropics , cytology , tropics , geography , medicine , cancer , gynecology , ethnology , history , pathology , biology , ecology
Some 90,000 patients were examined over a period of eight and a half years in Queensland and Papua and New Guinea, for early detection of cervical cancer. This survey was carried out in cooperation with 366 medical practitioners. In a series of 43,266 patients, the detection rate was 0–32%. We believe that this method of detection is the least expensive and most efficient of all screening procedures, particularly in such a vast and relatively underpopulated area of the tropics and subtropics.