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- 标题：Awareness of cervical cancer and effectiveness of educational intervention programme among nursing students in a rural area of Andhra Pradesh
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- 作者：Poonam R Naik ; K. Nagaraj ; Abhay Subhashrao Nirgude 等
- 期刊名称：Healthline
- 印刷版ISSN：2229-337X
- 出版年度：2012
- 卷号：3
- 期号：2
- 出版社：Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Gujarat
- 摘要：Cancer? of? cervix? is? the? commonest? genital?tract?malignancy?in?the?female,?and?it? has? been? ranked? second? to? breast? cancer.? Cervical? cancer? accounts? for? 8.5%? deaths? yearly? most? of? which? occur? in? developing? countries.?About?half?a?million?new?cases?are? seen?worldwide?each?year,?most?occurring?in? developing? countries.? [1,? 2]? Cervical? cancer? is? the?single?largest?killer?of?middle-aged?women? in?India.?The?incidence?of?cervical?cancer?per? 100,000? Indian? women? of? all? ages? varied? between? 30.0? and? 44.9? (WHO,? 2010).? India? bears?about?one?fifth?of?the?world’s?burden?of? cervical? cancer.? [3]? The? menace? of? cervical? cancer? is? still? haunting? India? in-spite? of? this? being?a?preventable?disease.?[4]?
