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February 2007, Vol 97, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 199
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.102830

LETTER

RECONSIDERING THE FEASIBILITY OF PAPANICOLAOU AND ALTERNATIVE SCREENING TESTS FOR LOW-RESOURCE COUNTRIES

Vivien Davis Tsu, PhD, MPH

Vivien Tsu is with the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle, Wash.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. Vivien Tsu, PATH, 1455 NW Leary Way, Seattle, WA 98107 (e-mail: vtsu@path.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Despite the commendable commitment of Suba et al.1 to cervical cancer prevention in developing countries, several key conclusions in their article are made on the basis of inaccurate and misleading use of references. For example, they cite an International Agency for Research on Cancer document2 as saying that Papanicolaou test–based programs have been "operational" in developing countries for more than 30 years. However, no operational programs of any scale were identified in Africa or Asia. The same document concludes that even in Latin America, "attempts to organize screening programs have failed . . . in spite of a coverage of . . . [Full Text]






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