Proposta de organização das ações de prevenção do câncer do colo do útero na Unidade Básica de Saúde

Abstract

Early diagnosis of cancer of the uterine cervix in asymptomatic women, using the Cytopathologic examination (Pap smears), enables detection of premalignant lesions and disease in early stages, even before symptoms appear. There is enormous resistance of women to reap this examination, and this situation complicates the coverage in women from 25 to 64 years old. This paper aimed to develop a proposal to organize the prevention of cervical cancer in women in the group from 25 to 64 years old who live in area of the Basic Health Unit Vereadora Maria Aparecida Pimenta Pedroso Estação. I performed a literature review on the organization of prevention of cervical cancer researching national publications in the Virtual Library of Health on the subject and even in the official publications of the Ministry of Health and in the Minas Gerais State Department of Health Guide Lines. By reading the articles and official publications surveyed I was able to identify several factors inherent to service and to women that explains the non realization of the Pap smear examination. I conclude for the necessity that the health team work to overcome these difficulties. I detach the need for a service organization in way to optimize the access of these women to care for increasing coverage of cervical screening Cytopathologic examination in women from 25 to 64 years old.