| practice of early diagnosis of breast and uterine cervix cancer in a northern italian town. | we studied the practice of screening for breast and uterine cervix cancer in torino where, currently, no kind of organized program exists and two projects of population screening programs, based on pap smear and mammography, have been developed. fifty-two percent (95% confidence limits (c.l.): 47%-58%) of women 18-69 years old had had a pap test or colposcopy in the absence of symptoms during their lifetime. among them 50% had had their last pap test within 18 months of the interview, 77% within ... | 1990 | 2368166 |