Cervical Cancer Screening with Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid and Lugol as Primary Screening Test, a Comparable Result to Conventional PAP Smear in Northern Cameroon

Abstract

The effectiveness of cervical Smear in the detection of cervical lesions has been demonstrated and this technique has significantly reduced the relative incidence of cervical cancer in developed countries since 1950 [6]. But the limits of this technique for developing countries are important, including cost, logistics and trained human resources to mobilize [7]. The possibility of detecting human papilloma virus (HPV) by molecular biology methods offers another additional approach in