Population Screening for Cervical Cancer in The Netherlands: A REPORT BY THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE

Evaluation Committee/de Waard F (Preventicon, Radboudkwartier 261, 3511 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands) Population screening for cervical cancer in the Netherlands International Journal of Epidemiology 1989, 18 : 775–781. A programme of population-based screening for cervical cancer in three adjacent regions in the Netherlands is described. The target female population aged 35–54 was 370 000. Screening was performed three times with intervals of three years during the period 1976–84. The total numbers of histologically proven abnormalities were 406, 1025 and 215 for severe dysplasia, carcinoma in... Mehr ...