[Cancer of the female sex organs in Baranja: 1985-1990]

Over a 6-year-period (January 1, 1985 to December 31, 1990) 86 women with cancer of genital organs were detected in the region of Baranya. According to the census of the year 1981, 27416 women have lived in Baranya, and in the above mentioned period 23533 examinations were done at the Women Welfare Clinic of the Health Centre Beli Manastir. In the period from 1985 to 1989, the average frequency of cervical cancer was 63.1%, uterine corpus cancer followed with 19.7%, ovarian and tubal with 13.1%, vulvar with 2.6% and vaginal with 1.3%. In the period from January 1 to December 31, 1990, cervical cancer accounted for 45.4% of all cancer cases, corpus cancer for 27.2%, ovarian and tubal cancer for 18.1%, without detection of any vulvar or vaginal cancer cases. In the observed period mean annual incidence of genital cancer was 52.9 per 100,000. According to organ sites mean annual incidence of cervical cancer was 32.1, corpus cancer 10.9, ovarian and tubal cancer 7.3, vulvar 1.2 and vaginal cancer 0.7 per 100,000. During the six year period cervical cancer incidence was reduced from 43.8 in 1985 to 18.2 per 100,000 in 1990. Corpus cancer incidence in 1985 was 14.6 as compared to 10.9 in 1990. Ovarian and tubal cancer incidence in 1985 and 1990 was 10.9 and 7.3, respectively. In the observed period preinvasive lesions of genital organs were discovered in 208 women, 201 (96.6%) of whom had cervical lesions--mean incidence here is 122.2 per 100,000. The overall proportion of preinvasive to invasive cervical lesions in the observed period was 79.1% to 20.9%.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)