An island-wide screening program for cervical neoplasia in Barbados

Cervical Cancer Detection in Jamaica

“…In an island-wide screening program of the predominantly Negro population of Barbados, Vaillant et a/. 18…”

Epidemiology of Cervical Cancer in the Caribbean

“…This was an exponential increase in deaths for that region. Barbados has maintained a high mortality rate over the last 15 years [14], with a rate of 9.4 per 100,000 women in 2002 and that same rate in 2018, which was greater than that of the Bahamas, which ranged from 6.2 to 7.9 per 100,000 women over that same period. Bahamas [5,27,28], Barbados [5,13], Belize [13,29], Cuba [5,13,30], Dominican Republic [5,13], French Guiana [13], Grenada [16], Guadeloupe [5,13,31], Guyana [5,13], Haiti [5,13], Jamaica [5,13], Martinique [5], Puerto Rico [5,13], Suriname [5,13], Trinidad and Tobago [5,13,26]…”

“…This showed that whatever measures were implemented during that period was perhaps not sustainable. From the period Bahamas [11][12][13], Barbados [14,13], Belize [2], Cuba [2,5,13,15], Dominican Republic [2,5,13], French Guiana [2,5,13], Grenada [16], Guadeloupe [2,5,13], Guyana [2,5,13], Haiti [17], Jamaica [2,5,13,18], Martinique [19,20], Netherlands Antilles [21,22], Puerto Rico [2,5,13], Suriname [23,24], Trinidad and Tobago [25,26] Age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR) were reported in 18 publications for 16 Caribbean territories (Table 3). The ASIR observed by the Netherlands showed that there was a significant reduction from 15.…”

“…The ASIR observed by the Netherlands showed that there was a significant reduction from 15. Bahamas [11][12][13], Barbados [14,13], Belize [2], Cuba [2,5,13,15], Dominican Republic [2,5,13], French Guiana [2,5,13], Grenada [16], Guadeloupe [2,5,13], Guyana [2,5,13], Haiti [17], Jamaica [2,5,13,18], Martinique [19,20], Netherlands Antilles [21,22], Puerto Rico [2,5,13], Suriname [23,24], Trinidad and Tobago [25,26]…”

“…Bahamas [32][33][34], Barbados [35], Cuba [30,36], Curacao [37,38], Dominican Republic [39], French Guiana [40][41][42][43], Guyana [44,45], Haiti [46], Jamaica [18,27,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53], Martinique [20,54,55], Netherlands Antilles [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63], Puerto Rico [64,65], St. Kitts and Nevis [66], St. Vincent and the Grenadines [66], Suriname [23,67], Trinidad and Tobago [68][69][70] In addition to the deduction that women between the ages of 25 and 34 have the highest risk of contracting the HPV, it is believed that the target population's age has a significant impact on their level of knowledge and the actions they take in the direction of prevention and diagnosis [14]. The overall average age of diagnosis was 24-61 years, with a range from 24 to 84 in sever...…”