To understand the impact of demographic, behavioral and contextual factors on cervical cancer, we examined the profile of women classified according to cervical cancer staging [precursor lesions cervical intraephitelial neoplasia (CIN2/CIN3), early- and advanced-stage cancer]. Patients were identified in the main oncological reference hospital in Pará State, Brazil, from 2013 through 2015. Adjusted prevalence ratios and their respective 95% confidence intervals were estimated using Poisson regression with robust variance.
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