MEDIFAM - Revista de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria
Volume 11, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 546-552

Screening for cervix cancer: Same incidence in latinoamerican immigrants women? [Cribado del cáncer de cérvix: ¿La misma frecuencia para mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas?] (Review)

González Rubio Y.* , Castaño Pinto M.S.
  • a Centro de Salud Monóvar, C/ Monóvar n. 11, 28033 Madrid, Spain
  • b Centro de Salud Monóvar, C/ Monóvar n. 11, 28033 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Due to the demographic change that our country is living with the arrival of immigrants of different nationalities, we wonder if these new users of the National System of Health present the same or different problems of health that the autochthonous population. In particular in this article we think about if the women coming from America of the South, immigrants' majority population in our area of health, they present different risk of suffering cancer of uterine cervical, and for they specify it changes in the screening program. Looking for information in the literature has not found evidences that it is necessary to vary the intervals in the screening program, in spite of the fact that differences exist in the prevalence and in some factors of risk for this illness.

Author Keywords

Cervical cancer Screening Latin American population

Index Keywords

human risk factor South and Central America Review cancer screening prevalence cancer incidence immigration uterine cervix cancer

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0012617871&partnerID=40&md5=2d9be3cecad553fc34683a3a1ee7c31b

ISSN: 11315768
Cited by: 2
Original Language: Spanish