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Cervical Cancer Screening and Precancer Treatment

Jose Jeronimo

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Union for International Cancer Control
This is a series of training workshops in Myanmar to build capacity for visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) to screen for cervical cancer and cryotherapy to treat any cervical precancer found. There is already capacity among gynecologists at the regional hospitals in Mandalay and Yangon to offer loop electrosurgical excision procedures (LEEP) for more complex precancers and surgery for invasive cancer if found. The first workshop will be conducted by external faculty to train 5–7 clinicians who will eventually become master trainers. About two months later, the external trainers will return to complete the training-of-trainers course and observe and support the local trainers as they train midwives in the two districts designated by the Ministry of Health (MOH) as the first ones in the country to pilot a government screening program (Pyin Oo Lwin and Yamethin). The MOH has set cervical cancer prevention as a high priority, but they need to develop local training capacity.

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