Barriers and facilitators to anal cancer screening among people living with HIV in Puerto Rico

CONCLUSIONS: With emerging evidence on the effectiveness of screening and treatment for anal cancer, several organizations are steering toward generating consensus-based anal cancer screening recommendations. Our study provides foundational data on barriers and facilitators to anal cancer screening in Puerto Rico that will be critical to informing screening implementation in this US territory.PMID:37803344 | PMC:PMC10559598 | DOI:10.1186/s12889-023-16847-6

Source: Cancer Control - October 6, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Gabriela Cruz Jeslie M Ramos-Cartagena Jos é L Torres-Russe Vivian Col ón-López Karen J Ortiz-Ortiz Luis Pericchi Ashish A Deshmukh Ana Patricia Ortiz Source Type: research