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Comparative Study
. 1986 Jul;76(7):797-9.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.76.7.797.

Cervical cancer in immigrant Caribbean women

R G Fruchter, J C Remy, W S Burnett, J G Boyce
Comparative Study

Cervical cancer in immigrant Caribbean women

R G Fruchter et al. Am J Public Health. 1986 Jul.

Abstract

At a public hospital serving the low-income community in Brooklyn, New York, invasive cervical cancer (ICC) was diagnosed in more advanced stages in Haitian and English-speaking Caribbean immigrants than in US-born Black women. In Brooklyn as a whole, only Haitians had more advanced ICC. Fewer Haitians had preinvasive cancer or ICC detected by a Pap test. Data are consistent with less frequent screening among low-income immigrants.

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