Exame Papanicolaou: o conhecimento das mulheres sobre o preventivo e a estratégia do PSF nocombate ao câncer de colo de útero

Abstract

The cancer cervical represents a serious public health problem in developing countries, where they are responsible for approximately, 80% of deaths from cancer. Despite such statistics, the disease can be diagnosed early, by means of examination preventive Papanicolaou, which is considered an instrument of great value in the early diagnosis of the disease. Even so, the ignorance of a large part of women in respect of the disease and of the examination preventive, has been pointed as a factor that creates a prognosis rather unfavourable, where late diagnosis and high rates of mortality. In this context, the PSF is a strategy which, to approximate the Health Team of households and, consequently, women, has an important role in the prevention of disease, acting under the integrality, through educational actions. Believes-also to expand the network of basic units and acting in drawing up protocols integrated assistance for effective, the PSF become, increasingly, an instrument of fundamental importance, in combating these neoplasms.