Cervical Cancer in the Baltic States: Can Intelligent and Personalized Cancer Screening Change the Situation?

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Stankūnas, Mindaugas
Pärna, Kersti
Tisler, Anna
Ķīvīte-Urtāne, Anda
Kojalo, Una
Zodzika, Jana
Baltzer, Nicholas
Nygard, Jan
Nygard, Mari
Uuskula, Anneli
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2022
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The three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) are among the European Union countries with the highest incidence and mortality rates for cervical cancer. In order to tackle this public health challenge, there is an urgent need to implement more advanced and effective methods in cervical cancer prevention in Baltic countries. Nationwide cervical cancer screening programs in the Baltic States commenced in 2004-2009. While the organized screening programs in these countries differ in some relevant details (target age groups, screening interval), the underlying principles and problems, barriers are universal. However, the outcomes of present screening programs are unsatisfactory. In addition, universal screening programs are extremely costly. There is a potential need for more intelligent and personalized cervical cancer screening program. In 2019 the project "Towards elimination of cervical cancer: intelligent and personalized solutions for cancer screening" (2020-2023) was developed with the main objective - to develop improved and personalized cancer screening methods within a sustainable health care system. It is expected, that more sophisticated cervical cancer screening model will be implemented in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and will have a positive impact to epidemiology of cervical cancer and public health in general.

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Acta medica Lituanica

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29

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1

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© 2022 Mindaugas Stankūnas, Kersti Pärna, Anna Tisler, Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne, Una Kojalo, Jana Zodzika, Nicholas Baltzer, Jan Nygard, Mari Nygard, Anneli Uuskula. Published by Vilnius University Press.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Oncology and carcinogenesis

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Latvia

Lithuania

cervical cancer

prevention

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Stankūnas, M; Pärna, K; Tisler, A; Ķīvīte-Urtāne, A; Kojalo, U; Zodzika, J; Baltzer, N; Nygard, J; Nygard, M; Uuskula, A, Cervical Cancer in the Baltic States: Can Intelligent and Personalized Cancer Screening Change the Situation?, Acta medica Lituanica, 2022, 29 (1), pp. 19-26

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