RT Book, Section
A1 Dolan, Brigid M.
A1 Walsh, Judith
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1193123118
T1 Preventive Health Care in Women
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264687343
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193123118
RD 2023/09/28
AB Prevention  of  disease  can  be  primary  (preventing  disease  before  it  happens  as  well  as  identifying  and  modifying  risk  factors),  secondary  (identifying  early  disease),  or  tertiary  (treating  complications  of  the  disease  or  limiting  the  impact  of  established  disease).  Important  areas  for  primary  prevention  include  encouraging  women  to  exercise  regularly  to  reduce  the  risk  of  CHD  and  breast  cancer  as  well  as  counseling  women  to  discontinue  cigarette  smoking  to  reduce  the  risk  of  cardiac  and  lung  diseases.  Cancer  screening  in  women  is  an  example  of  secondary  prevention,  in  that  disease  is  detected  early  enough  that  prompt  treatment  improves  outcome  (even  in  its  precursor  stage,  eg,  colonic  adenomatous  polypectomy  preventing  colon  cancer).  Loop  electrocervical  excision  procedures  for  cervical  intraepithelial  neoplasia  I–III  is  an  example  of  tertiary  prevention  (removal  of  early-stage  cancer  to  prevent  death  from  metastatic  disease).