Recent Developments in the Dutch Cervical Cancer Screening Programme
Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common female malignancy, diagnosed in 500,000 women each year, while 275,000 die from it. Without prevention, the peak incidence occurs at a relatively young age, between 40-55 years, when women are still active on the labour market and have young children. While cervical cancer is the leading cancer-related cause of death and the second most common cancer in women in developing countries (incidence rates ≥30 per 100,000), it became much less common in developed countries in the recent decades. In the Netherlands, the incidence and mortality have... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doctoralThesis |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
Schlagwörter: | cervical cancer / screening programmes |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29035457 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/14190 |