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Table 3 Controls' views

From: Cervical cancer: a qualitative study on subjectivity, family, gender and health services

Subjectivity, Family, Gender and Health Services

"-You told me that your mother died of a CC; when she was sick, did you have a PAP smear? Were you worried?, did you want to know more about it?

-No, I never thought I was going to have that, I never thought it.". P12: control1.txt (108:114).

"...it seems to be more the responsibility of us women, first because it is our body, it seems more like the responsibility of women, doesn't it? (...) to worry about it (...) I think that the responsibility is one's own more than the partner's.". P18: control7.txt (221:229).

"...whenever he comes, he is angry because I don't want to be with him [sexually]. He even tells me that it is because I have another [man], and I get very frightened of being with him...". P20: Control9.txt (112:114).

"no, they haven't told me. I took it to the doctor and no, the actual truth, perhaps the doctor doesn't have the time, and one wants to know the actual truth about what is happening inside her, because, well, there are times that the doctors don't, don't tell us this, I mean, their point of view about where the infection came from or what the infection is, nothing..." P.15: control14.txt (118:1)