screening for cervical neoplasia in a health center in western andalusia筛查宫颈瘤在安达卢西亚西部健康中心.pdf

Open Journal of Nursing, 2012, 2, 36-40 OJN /10.4236/ojn.2012.22007 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojn/) Screening for cervical neoplasia in a health center in Western Andalusia 1 1 2* Concepción Duclós-García , Carmen Pareja-Arcos , Manuel Ortega-Calvo 1Bellavista Health Center, Seville, Spain 2Esperanza Macarena Health Center, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Seville, Spain * Email: ortegacalvo@terra.es Received 27 September 2011; revised 16 December 2011; accepted 18 January 2012 ABSTRACT and negotiating strategies for safer sex have been re- commended as an approach to limit the spread of virus We have analyzed the annual burden of 736 smears Human Papillomavirus (HPV), one of the most important collected in the screening of cervical neoplasia at pri- risk factors for cervical cancer [7]. Although it appears mary care facility where we work. We could not de- that social class and educational attainment are also very tect any neoplasia. Of the 50 positive smears (6.79% important [8,9]. The HPV prophylactic vaccines are re- of total), 4 cases showed HSIL (high grade intraepi- commended before th