CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 5, 63-64, Copyright
© 1955 by American Cancer Society
Exfoliative Cytology in Mass Screening for Uterine Cancer
Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
Cyrus C. Erickson M.D.1
1 The Institute of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee.
1. Exfoliative-cytology technique in mass screening for detection of uterine cancer is an efficient, practical test.
2. Detection by this method must be co-ordinated with the essential follow-up investigation by pathological studies of tissue biopsies for early diagnosis.
3. The greatest hope for increasing the five-year-survival rates lies in detection while the lesion is confined to the cervix.