Progresos realizados en la detección del cáncer del cuello uterino en los Estados Unidos / Progress made in cervical cancer detection in the United States

ABSTRACT

In the United States three national surveys made in 1961, 1963 and 1966, respectively, showed that the number of uterine cytology tests had risen from 5,422,827, in 1961, to 15,732,973, in 1966, an increase of 190 percent. The percentage of all U.S. females examined, age twenty and over, rose from 10 percent in 1961, and 15 percent in 1963, to 26 percent in 1966