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Breast cancer screening in developing countries
da Costa Vieira, René Aloísio; Biller, Gabriele; Uemura, Gilberto; Ruiz, Carlos Alberto; Curado, Maria PaulaDeveloping countries have limited healthcare resources and use different strategies to diagnose breast cancer. Most of the population depends on the public healthcare system, which affects the diagnosis of the tumor. Thus, the indicators observed in developed countries cannot be directly compared with those observed in developing countries because the healthcare infrastructures in developing countries are defic...
Can mobile units improve the strategies for cervical cancer prevention?
Mauad, Edmundo Carvalho; Nicolau, Sérgio Mancini; Gomes, Uilho A.; da Costa Vieira, René Aloísio; de Castro Mattos, Jacó Saraiva; Longatto, AdhemarCervical cancer is a serious public health problem in women in developing countries because of absence or ineffectiveness of screening programs. Several biases to access medical care and inequity of public health system in a continental country like Brazil limit the implementation of adequate programs to appropriately prevent the cervical cancer. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the results of a...