Topics on Cervical Cancer With an Advocacy for Prevention

Rajamanickam Rajkumar

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9789535101833
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535168614
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Gynecology, Obstetrics & Midwifery

Cervical Cancer is one of the leading cancers among women, especially in developing countries. Prevention and control are the most important public health strategies. Empowerment of women, education, "earlier" screening by affordable technologies like visual inspection, and treatment of precancers by cryotherapy/ LEEP are the most promising interventions to reduce the burden of cervical cancer.Dr Rajamanickam Rajkumar had the privilege of establishing a rural population based cancer registry in South India in 1996, as well as planning and implementing a large scale screening program for cervical cancer in 2000. The program was able to show a reduction in the incidence rate of cervical cancer by 25%, and reduction in mortality rate by 35%. This was the greatest inspiration for him to work on cerrvical cancer prevention, and he edited this book to inspire others to initiate such programs in developing countries. InTech - Open Access Publisher plays a major role in this crusade against cancer, and the authors have contributed to it very well.

Table of contents

• Topics on Cervical Cancer With an Advocacy for Prevention
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Predictors of Cervical Cancer Screening: An Application of Health Belief Model
• Chapter 2 Community Based Cancer Screening – The 12 “ I ”s Strategy for Success
• Chapter 3 Challenges to Cervical Cancer in the Developing Countries: South African Context
• Chapter 4 Cervical Cancer in Sub Sahara Africa
• Chapter 5 The Indicators of Predicting Disease Outcome in HPV Carcinogenesis
• Chapter 6 Cervical Cancer Treatment in Aging Women
• Chapter 7 Cervical Cancer Prevention by Liquid-Based Cytology in a Low-Resource Setting
• Chapter 8 Microinvasive Carcinoma of the Cervix
• Chapter 9 The Clinical Outcome of Patients with Microinvasive Cervical Carcinoma
• Chapter 10 New Therapeutic Targets
• Chapter 11 A Transcriptome- and Marker-Based Systemic Analysis of Cervical Cancer
• Chapter 12 Evaluation of p53, p16 and E-Cadherin Status as Biomarkers for Cervical Cancer Diagnosis
• Chapter 13 New Biomarkers for Cervical Cancer – Perspectives from the IGF System
• Chapter 14 HPV Bioinformatics: In Silico Detection, Drug Design and Prevention Agent Development
• Chapter 15 Therapeutic Exploitation of Targeting Programmed Cell Death for Cervical Cancer
• Chapter 16 Antiproliferative Effect and Induction of Apoptosis by Inula viscosa L. and Retama monosperma L. Extracts in Human Cervical Cancer Cells