PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - E. J. Parboosingh
AU  - G. Anderson
AU  - E. A. Clarke
AU  - S. Inhaber
AU  - E. Kaegi
AU  - C. Mills
AU  - Y. Mao
AU  - L. Root
AU  - G. Stuart
AU  - S. Stachenko
TI  - Cervical cancer screening: are the 1989 recommendations still valid? National Workshop on Screening for Cancer of the Cervix
DP  - 1996 Jun 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1847--1853
VI  - 154
IP  - 12
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/12/1847.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/12/1847.full
SO  - CMAJ1996 Jun 15; 154
AB  - Although screening for cervical cancer has been shown to be effective in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with this disease, and despite many attempts to encourage the development of provincial programs, as of 1995 no province had a comprehensive screening program for cervical cancer. Participants at the Interchange '95 workshop, held in Ottawa in November 1995, reviewed the recommendations of the 1989 National Workshop on Screening for Cancer of the Cervix and identified factors that have impeded their implementation. Participants discussed the need for comprehensive information systems, quality control and strategies to increase recruitment of unscreened and underscreened women. They concluded that the formation of a Cervical Cancer Prevention Network involving key stakeholders will facilitate the development and implementation of provincial programs to ensure optimal screening. They agreed that, in the interim, recommendations for practising physicians should remain as they were following the 1989 workshop.