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Reference Manual - IARC Screening Group

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Human Papillomavirus and Cervical CancerSECONDARY PREVENTIONAs discussed in Chapter 1, although at present prevention of HPVinfection is difficult, for women already infected the immediate need is to:• identify those with early, easily treatable precancerous lesions; and• cost-effectively treat them before the lesions progress to cancer.Thus, the remaining chapters of this manual are devoted to providinghealth professionals working at all levels of the healthcare system withthe necessary new knowledge they need to understand how to managethis problem in low-resource settings where Pap smears are not available.When this knowledge is combined with competency-based training inVIA and cryotherapy, healthcare providers should be able to effectivelycounsel women at risk of cervical cancer and to test, treat or refer womenwith cervical disease.REFERENCESBlumenthal P. 2002. Immunization against cervical cancer: Who? When?Where? Medscape General Medicine 4(4). Available athttp://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444979.Cason J, P Rice and JM Best. 1998. Transmission of cervical cancerassociatedhuman papilloma viruses from mother to child. Intervirology41(4–5): 213–218.Groopman J. 1999. Contagion. The New Yorker 75(26): 44–49.Judson FN. 1992. Interactions between human papillomavirus and humanimmunodeficiency virus infections. <strong>IARC</strong> Scientific Publications 119:199–207.Koutsky LA et al. 2002. A controlled trial of a human Papillomavirustype 16 vaccine. New England Journal of Medicine 347: 1645–1651.Magnusson P, P Sparen and U Gyllensten. 1999. Genetic link to cervicaltumors. Nature 400: 29–30.Massimi P and L Banks. 1997. Repression of p53 transcriptional activityby the HPV E7 proteins. Virology 227(1): 255–259.McDonald C. 1999. Cancer statistics, 1999: Challenges in minoritypopulations. CA—A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 49(1): 6–7.2-8 Cervical Cancer Prevention Guidelines for Low-Resource Settings

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