Recent HPV self-sampling use for cervical cancer screening in Latin America and Caribbean: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Cervical cancer is one of the deadliest cancers among women in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), where most of the countries have not been successful in implementing population-level cytology-based screening programs. An increasing body of evidence supports the validity of self-sampling as an alternative to clinician collection for primary Human papillomavirus (HPV) screening. Therefore, this work aims to summarize recent HPV self-sampling approaches in LAC.

Method

We performed a systematic review to identify studies focused on "Self-sampling", and "Human Papillomavirus DNA test" and "Latin America" in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane library and SCOPUS databases for publications dating between 01 January 2017 and 15 March 2022 based on the Preferre

SUBMITTER: Dartibale CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9627290 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature