Acceptability and safety of thermal ablation to prevent cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization recommends thermal ablation as an alternative to cryotherapy to treat women with precancerous lesions in low-resource settings. However, limited data are available on women's experience and adverse events (AEs) of the procedure in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this study was to evaluate the acceptability and safety of thermal ablation in women screened positive for precancerous cervical lesions.

Methods

Asymptomatic women aged 30-49 years old living in the Dschang Health District were invited to participate in a cervical cancer screening campaign termed "3 T-Approach" (for Test-Triage and Treat). Recruited women were asked to perform HPV self-sampling followed by triage with visual assessment and treatment with t

SUBMITTER: Metaxas T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8812220 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature