Objective.

To identify socio-cultural, psychological, health system and accessibility barriers that prevents early diagnosis of cervical cancer in Colombian women according to existing literature.

Methods.

An update between January 2003 and June 2014. The search was conducted on the information sources: PubMed, LILACS, Science Direct, Cochrane Library, Cancer Library, CANCER Mondial, Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Repositories.

Results.

Of 40 publications, 22 Colombian research results were included. Finally, 10 studies concerning socio-cultural barriers were included, 1 to psychological barriers, 12 to barriers of health and access systems.

Conclusions.

Few studies that demonstrated the existence of barriers related to the opportunity to make decisions and take actions, access to health care and quality of health care for cervical cancer in Colombia were found.

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