Clinical practice. Current approaches to cervical-cancer screening.

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Published in N Engl J Med on May 24, 2001

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G F Sawaya1, A D Brown, A E Washington, A M Garber

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1: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

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