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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]?