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Cervical cancer: colposcopy, cytopathology, histopathology

Africa

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Utility of colposcopy for the screening and management of cervical cancer in Africa: a cross-sectional analysis of providers' training and practices [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors Affecting Compliance with Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pap Smear Screening among Healthcare Providers in Africa: Systematic Review and Meta-Summary of 2045 Individuals [2013]

Asia

• BMC Public Health
  • Barriers and facilitators of pap-smear test uptake in Asia: a systematic review [2025]

Australasia

• Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
  • Cervix excisions including LLETZ and cone biopsies

Australia

• Cancer Council
  • Histopathology
  • Colposcopy

Canada

• BC Cancer Agency
  • Colposcopy Management Algorithms for Patients Positive for High Risk HPV [2024]
  • BC Cancer Cervix Screening Program: Colposcopy Standards [2024]

• Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
  • Colposcopy, treatment and follow-up

• Current Oncology
  • 2023 Canadian Colposcopy Guideline: A Risk-Based Approach to Management and Surveillance of Cervical Dysplasia [2023]

• Ontario Health
  • Ontario Cervical Screening Program (OCSP): Guide to Colposcopy [2024]
  • Clinical Guidance: Recommended Best Practices for Delivery of Colposcopy Services in Ontario [2016]
  • The organization of colposcopy services in Ontario: recommended framework [2015]
  • Toolkit for Ontario Colposcopists

China

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Cervical cancer screening aided by artificial intelligence, China [2023]

Estonia

• Cancer Control
  • Quality Assessment of Cervical Cytology Practices in Estonia From 2007 to 2018 [2022]

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Cervical cancer screening history among women diagnosed with cervical cancer in Estonia 2017-18 [2023]

Europe

• European Federation for Colposcopy and Pathology of the Lower Genital Tract
  • European consensus statement on expert colposcopy [2023]

International

• Acta Cytologica
  • The Pap Test and Bethesda 2014 [2015]

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Care
  • Review on Histopathological Techniques in Cervical Cancer Screening [2024]

• BMC Cancer
  • Colposcopic accuracy in diagnosing squamous intraepithelial lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the International Federation of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy 2011 terminology [2023]

• International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting
  • Dataset for the Reporting of Carcinoma of the Cervix: Recommendations From the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) [2022]
  • Carcinomas of the Cervix

• International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy
  • IFCPC Colposcopy Guidelines and Terminology
  • IFCPC Colposcopy Guide

• International Society of Gynecological Pathologists
  • Tumor Typing of Endocervical Adenocarcinoma: Contemporary Review and Recommendations From the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]
  • Tumor Staging of Endocervical Adenocarcinoma: Recommendations From the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]
  • The Silva Pattern-based Classification for HPV-associated Invasive Endocervical Adenocarcinoma and the Distinction Between In Situ and Invasive Adenocarcinoma: Relevant Issues and Recommendations From the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]
  • The Role of Predictive Biomarkers in Endocervical Adenocarcinoma: Recommendations From the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]
  • The ISGyP Endocervical Adenocarcinoma Project: Master Plan Summary, Acknowledgment of Participants, and Participant Responses to Final Recommendations of the Expert Panels [2021]
  • Survey Results on Pathologic Aspects of Endocervical Adenocarcinoma by the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]
  • Grading of Endocervical Adenocarcinomas: Review of the Literature and Recommendations From the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]
  • Endocervical Adenocarcinoma, Gross Examination, and Processing, Including Intraoperative Evaluation: Recommendations From the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists [2021]

• Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
  • Global Cervical Cancer Incidence by Histological Subtype and Implications for Screening Methods [2024]

• Medical Science Monitor
  • Prognostic Significance of Clinicopathological Factors Influencing Overall Survival and Event-Free Survival of Patients with Cervical Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Colposcopy

Italy

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Rationale and development of an on-line quality assurance programme for colposcopy in a population-based cervical screening setting in Italy [2013]

Japan

• PLoS ONE
  • Current status of cervical cytology during pregnancy in Japan [2021]

Malaysia

• Malaysian Family Physician
  • Non-Adherence to recommended Pap smear screening guidelines and its associated factors among women attending health clinic in Malaysia [2018]

New Zealand

• Health New Zealand
  • Colposcopy Audit Programme [2017]

Poland

• Ginekologia Polska
  • COLPOSCOPY 2020 — COLPOSCOPY PROTOCOLS: A Summary of the Clinical Experts Consensus Guidelines of the Polish Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathophysiology and the Polish Society of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Epidemiology and Health
  • Effect of Pap smears on the long-term survival of cervical cancer patients: a nationwide population-based cohort study in Korea [2022]

• Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine
  • Continuous quality improvement program and its results of Korean Society for Cytopathology [2020]
  • Current Cytology Practices in Korea: A Nationwide Survey by the Korean Society for Cytopathology [2017]

• Scientific Reports
  • Comparing survival outcomes for cervical cancer based on the 2014 and 2018 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging systems [2021]

Republic of Korea, United States

• Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine
  • Clinical management of abnormal Pap tests: differences between US and Korean guidelines [2020]

Singapore

• Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore
  • SCCPS Scientific Committee Position Paper on Dual-Stain Cytology [2025]

Spain

• Asociación Española de Patología Cervical y Colposcopia
  • Colposcopy Guidelines. Standards of Quality [2018]

Sri Lanka

• Ministry of Health Sri Lanka
  • National Colposcopy Training Module, Guideline and Standard Operating Procedure [2020]

Sweden

• BMJ
  • Risk of invasive cervical cancer after atypical glandular cells in cervical screening: nationwide cohort study [2016]

Turkey

• Turkish Journal of Pathology
  • What does the Data of 354,725 Patients from Turkey Tell Us About Cervical Smear Epithelial Cell Abnormalities? - The Epithelial Cell Abnormality Rate is Increasing - Quality Control Studies and Corrective Activity are Musts [2017]

United Kingdom

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Adjunctive colposcopy technologies for assessing suspected cervical abnormalities: systematic reviews and economic evaluation [2018]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Adjunctive colposcopy technologies for assessing suspected cervical abnormalities: the DYSIS colposcope with DYSISmap and the ZedScan I [2018]

• NHS England
  • Cervical screening: programme and colposcopy management
  • Cervical screening: laboratory organisation
  • Cervical screening: histopathology reporting handbook
  • Cervical screening: gynaecological cytopathology EQA scheme
  • Cervical screening: dynamic spectral imaging system (DySIS)
  • Cervical screening: cytology samples external quality assessment
  • Cervical screening: cytology reporting failsafe
  • Cervical screening: cytology improvement guide

• Public Health England
  • Human papillomavirus (HPV) primary screening: colposcopy management

• Royal College of Pathologists
  • Dataset for histopathological reporting of cervical neoplasia [2021]
  • BPR Clinical responsibility for cytology services [2019]

United States

• American Family Physician
  • Cervical Colposcopy: Indications and Risk Assessment [2020]

• American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology
  • Colposcopy Standards: Guidelines for Endocervical Curettage at Colposcopy [2023]
  • A Systematic Review of Tests for Postcolposcopy and Posttreatment Surveillance [2020]
  • Evidence-Based Consensus Recommendations for Colposcopy Practice for Cervical Cancer Prevention in the United States [2017]
  • Guidelines - ASCCP
  • Colposcopy Standards

• CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
  • The new (Version 9) American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor, node, metastasis staging for cervical cancer [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Pap Tests

• College of American Pathologists
  • Navigating Practice Issues Related to the Unsatisfactory Cervicovaginal Papanicolaou Test: Survey Results of Laboratories Participating in the 2020 College of American Pathologists PAP Education Program [2024]
  • Protocol for the Examination of Resection Specimens From Patients With Primary Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix [2023]
  • Current State of Cytologic-Histologic Correlation Implementation for North American and International Laboratories: Results of the College of American Pathologists Cytopathology Committee Laboratory Practices in Gynecologic Cytology Survey [2022]
  • False-Negative Interpretation of Adenocarcinoma In Situ in the College of American Pathologists Gynecologic PAP Education Program [2017]
  • Misinterpretation Rates of High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion in the College of American Pathologists Gynecologic PAP Education and PAP Proficiency Test Program [2016]

• Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • The association between affordable care act implementation and the prevalence of women having ever received a Pap smear [2024]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Prognostic Performance of the 2018 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Cervical Cancer Staging Guidelines [2019]
  • Revised Terminology for Cervical Histopathology and Its Implications for Management of High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions of the Cervix [2012]
  • Adherence to Conservative Management Recommendations for Abnormal Pap Tests in Adolescents [2012]

• Preventive Medicine
  • Cervical cytology screening among low-income, minority adolescents in New York City following the 2009 ACOG guidelines [2014]

• StatPearls
  • Papanicolaou Smear
  • Colposcopy
  • Abnormal Papanicolaou Smear

WHO

• International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Colposcopy and Treatment of Cervical Precancer [2017]
  • Atlas of Colposcopy: Principles and Practice [2017]
  • WHO histological classification of tumours of the uterine cervix [2004]
  • The Bethesda System [2004]
  • TNM / FIGO [2004]
  • Histopathology of the uterine cervix - digital atlas [2004]
  • Cytopathology of the uterine cervix - digital atlas [2004]
  • Colposcopy and Treatment of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia: A Beginner's Manual [2003]

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