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Evolution of the fight against precancerous lesions and cervical cancer in Morocco

. M. Zraidi, H. Lerhlibi et H. Hami


Abstract

Cervical cancer (CC) is a major cause of female morbidity and mortality worldwide. Thus, nearly 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths. Thus it is ranked the fourth cancer in women in the world. However, the severity of this disease depends on many parameters, the most important of which is the timing of its prevention since early prevention reduces the frequency of this cancer. It should be noted that the prevention methods and techniques used vary from one country to another and more specifically between developed countries and low-income countries. Thus, in this work we are interested in the evolutions during the last two decades of the means employed by the health system in Morocco for the prevention, the screening of the cervical cancer in this case the precancerous lesions. The results showed that from 2012 a new primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategy is applied in Morocco: anti HPV vaccination, screening by visual inspection with acetic acid, instead of pap test cervicovaginal smear, and treatment precancerous lesions by thermo-coagulation instead of resection with a diathermic loop.

Keywords: Cancer, cervix, screening, HPV vaccination.

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