Despite availability of primary and secondary prevention measures, cervical cancer persists
as one of the most common cancers among women around the world. Although early-stage …

Cervical cancer affects the cells lining the cervix, most commonly occurring in the cells of the
transformation zone, which is the part of the cervix where the glandular cells of the …

Abstract The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that individuals with a cervix
initiate cervical cancer screening at age 25 years and undergo primary human …

Human papillomavirus infection is the precursor for the development of cervical cancer and
is detectable in 99.7% of squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma cases. Early …

Background Optimal treatment of cervical cancer is based on disease stage; therefore, an
understanding of the global epidemiology of specific stages of locally advanced disease is …

Background Fractal geometry has been the basis for the development of a diagnosis of
preneoplastic and neoplastic cells that clears up the undetermination of the atypical …

Background: The diagnosis of cervix cytology has problems of inter-observer reproducibility.
Methodologies based on fractal geometry objectively differentiated normal, low-grade …

Breast, ovarian and uterine cancers are the most common neoplasms among women.
Several mechanisms may be involved in oncogenesis and these include environmental and …

Worldwide, cervical cancer is a leading cause of cancer related morbidity and mortality. For
over 50 years, cervical cytology has been the gold standard for cervical cancer screening …

Objective To evaluate both the performance and acceptability of a method coupling self-
sampling with detection of cervical malignancy via elevated HPV 16 and 18 E6 oncoproteins …