Mortality from Cervical Carcinoma in Mexico

Factores de riesgo para cáncer cervicouterino en mujeres de Zacatecas

“…7,8 A pesar de que las actividades de prevención y control del cáncer cervical se iniciaron en 1975, las tasas de mortalidad por esta neoplasia persisten con tendencias ascendentes: la tasa de mortalidad por cán-cer cervical en México, en la presente década, es de 9.5/100 000 mujeres. 9 Cabe mencionar, además, que en un análisis de la mortalidad por dicha patología realizado en México, 10 se observó que ese aumento se ha dado principalmente en los grupos de mujeres de mayor edad.…”

Design and methods of the evaluation of an HPV-based cervical cancer screening strategy in Mexico: the Morelos HPV study

“…5 In 1985, incidence of invasive CC was estimated to be 40 new cases per 100 000 women, and by 1997 this estimate had increased to 50 new cases per 100 000. 3,4 The mortality and high incidence rate of late stage CC are indirect evidence of the low impact of the Mexican National Cervical Cancer Screening Program (CCSP); especially in light of the fact that 90% of CC cases can and should be detected using the Papanicolau (Pap) test. 6 In Mexico, it has been difficult to establish and maintain an effective Pap test screening program, in comparison to those that are credited with reducing CC rates in the developed world.…”

Cervical cancer mortality trends in Brazil, 1981-2006

“…This has contributed to the reduction in mortality from "neoplasm of uterus, part unspecified", and the resulting apparent stability in the cervical cancer mortality trend in Brazil. Other countries have observed the same effect 7,29 shortly after the implementation of cervical cancer control programs, in response to diagnostic precision. Thus, the reduction observed after correction of cervical cancer mortality must reflect the improved access to cervical cancer screening, especially in the country's State capitals.…”