Cervical cancer in immigrant Caribbean women.
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 76 (7) , 797-799
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.76.7.797
Abstract
At a public hospital serving the low-income community in Brooklyn, New York, invasive cervical cancer (ICC) was diagnosed in more advanced stages in Haitian and English-speaking Caribbean immigrants than in US-born Black women. In Brooklyn as a whole, only Haitians had more advanced ICC. Fewer Haitians had preinvasive cancer or ICC detected by a Pap test. Data are consistent with less frequent screening among low-income immigrants.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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