Abstract
Women in the isolated Amazon jungle region of San Martin in Peru are participating in a research programme to prevent cervical cancer which kills an unusually large number of women in that country -- some 40 per 100 000 women per year compared to just over 9 per 100 000 per year in North America according to figures from WHOs International Agency for Research on Cancer. Under the programme the women in San Martin many of them small farmers who live far from the nearest health post are being diagnosed and treated for precancerous lesions in one visit rather than having to return at a later time to learn the results of the usual Pap smear test. Before the programme began only 23% of the women with abnormal Pap smear tests had received follow-up treatment in San Martin according to a survey done before the screening and treatment programme began. (excerpt)
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