Cervical cancer screening in rural India: Status & current concepts

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dc.contributor.authorSrivastava, ANen_US
dc.contributor.authorMisra, JSen_US
dc.contributor.authorSrivastava, Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorDas, BCen_US
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Sen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-10T01:40:40Z
dc.date.available2020-04-10T01:40:40Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.description.abstractCervical carcinoma is one of the most common and dreaded diseases of women, and in India, it accounts for 16 per cent of total cervical cancer cases occurring globally. The situation is more alarming in the rural areas where the majority of women are illiterate and ignorant about the hazards of cervical cancer. Different screening strategies such as rural cancer registries and camp approach for cancer detection have been found useful in minimizing the problem of cervical cancer in the villages. Various screening techniques such as visual inspection with acetic acid, visual inspection with Lugol's iodine, visual inspection with magnification devices-magnavisualizer, Pap smear and HPV-DNA testing have been suggested and tried under low-resource settings of our country, and cervical cytology screening has been found effective in reducing incidence of the disease. In the present review, feasibility of different screening methods has been assessed to find out the most suitable mode applicable at the rural level. Single lifetime screening particularly of high-risk women along with analysis of cost-effective tumour markers such as Argyrophilic nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR) counts to discriminate high-risk dysplasia cases appears to be an appropriate approach in fighting against cervical cancer.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Pathology, Era's Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Era University, Lucknow, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsAmity Institute of Molecular Medicine & Stem Cell Research, Noida, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsICMR-National Institute of Cancer and Prevention Research, Noida, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationSrivastava AN, Misra JS, Srivastava S, Das BC, Gupta S. Cervical cancer screening in rural India: Status & current concepts. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2018 Dec; 148(6): 687-696en_US
dc.identifier.issn0971-5916
dc.identifier.issn0975-9174
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/195733
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherIndian Council of Medical Researchen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber6en_US
dc.relation.volume148en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_5_17en_US
dc.subjectAgNORen_US
dc.subjectcarcinoma cervixen_US
dc.subjectrural cervical cancer screeningen_US
dc.subjectsingle lifetime cytological screeningen_US
dc.subjectsquamous intraepithelial lesionen_US
dc.titleCervical cancer screening in rural India: Status & current conceptsen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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