RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cervical cancer screening: are the 1989 recommendations still valid? National Workshop on Screening for Cancer of the Cervix
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 1847
OP 1853
VO 154
IS 12
A1 E. J. Parboosingh
A1 G. Anderson
A1 E. A. Clarke
A1 S. Inhaber
A1 E. Kaegi
A1 C. Mills
A1 Y. Mao
A1 L. Root
A1 G. Stuart
A1 S. Stachenko
YR 1996
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/12/1847.abstract
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.