Methods for Cervical Cancer Screening

 

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Auteurs: Vargas-Revilla, Tatiana, Seáñez-de-Villa, Jesús Manuel, León-Rovira, Noel, Barrón-Cano, Olivia Maricela
Formaat: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publicatiedatum:2014
Omschrijving:Cervical cancer affects a great portion of the world’s female population,and it became the third cause of death for women in developing countries such as CostaRica.The most common method to diagnose this cancer is the Papanicolaou testor Papsmear; nevertheless, high levels of sensitivity and specificity are required. Consequently, different organizations have developed multiple methods to detect and classify this cancer. This article is divided in three sections: the first one focuses on the general impact of cervical cancer has hadin CostaRica, these condsection gathers information about different methodologies used around the world to detect this cancer and the third one makes reference to the current development of the screening devise in Mexico that works as a monitoring system and can used by women without external assistance. 
Land:Portal de Revistas TEC
Instelling:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Taal:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2149
Online toegang:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/tec_marcha/article/view/2149
Keyword:Cáncer cervicouterino
sensibilidad
especificidad
Cervical Cancer
sensitivity
specificity