Article ID: CBB001420482

Câncer, mulheres e saúde pública: a história do exame para câncer cervical (2010)

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Löwy, Illana (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 17, suppl. 1
Issue: suppl. 1
Pages: 53-67


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue about cancer
Language: Portuguese

Cytological screening for cervical cancer (the Pap smear), the first attempt at mass screening for a human malignancy, is often presented as a non-problematic demonstration of the feasibility of such screening. Screening for this tumor became a model for screening for other malignancies: breast, colon and prostate. My text follows the early history of the Pap smear and the conditions that led to its transformation into a routine screening test, despite persistent problems in stabilizing the readings of microscopic slides. It then analyzes the consequences of diffusion of the Pap smear, controversies surrounding this test, the mutual shaping of diagnostic tests and the disease cervical cancer, and the problematic extension of the lessons learned in screening for cervical tumors to other malignancies.

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Authors & Contributors
Teixeira, Luiz Antonio da Silva
Löwy, Ilana
Robert Gilmore McKinnell
Aronowitz, Robert
Vayena, Eftychia
Read, Jennifer
Concepts
Cancer; tumors
Medicine
Public health
Disease and diseases
Women's diseases
Women and health
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Medieval
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Brazil
United States
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Argentina
New Zealand
Canada
Institutions
American Cancer Society
United States Preventive Services Task Force
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