CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION IN PRIMARY CARE: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVISION

Cervical cancer (CC) differs from the majority of neoplasms for been preventable. Nonetheless, it was observed that CC constitutes a serious health problem worldwide, especially in underdeveloped countries. Furthermore, it is noticed that it covers all levels of assistance; however it is in the basic assistance and specifically in the Programa de Saúde da Família that most of the prevention happen. The objective of this paper is to present a bibliographical revision about the difficulties concerning the prevention of CC encountered in the primary health care (PHC). For the research, we used the databases (10 sources) from Scielo, the Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, the Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia, Electronic Journal Collection Health and to access them we used keywords and restricted the publishing date to the last 10 years. It was observed that the most discussed points, which lead to a major difficulty concerning CC prevention, is the low dissemination of information about the benefits of its tracking and the lacking of a broadly active search by health agents (10 sources). Besides, the structures of the Basic Health Units are terrible, including the existence of several barriers to access them (9 sources). Finally, there is a lack of interdisciplinary between the teams and an ineffective bond with the patients (8 sources). Therefore, the PHC offers potential to expand and qualify the CC prevention in our country, tracking it regularly and effectively with cytopathological exams in sexually active women or over 18, aiming to reduce mortality through CC.