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[Considering risk factors and prevention in uterine cervical cancer]
Natalia Velenciuc1, I Velenciuc, S Luncă
1Facultatea de Medicină, Spitalul de Urgenţe Chirurgicale Sf. Ioan Iaşi, Clinica de Urgenţe Chirurgicale, Universitatea de Medicină si Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi.
Unlabelled:
Cervical cancer is a disease with important medical and social involvements and a severe evolution in advanced stage. Its high incidence in Romania situated this country on the first place in Europe.
Material And Method:
The paper analyzed retrospectively a sample of 51 cases suffering from cervical cancer in advanced stage. The most important risk factors, depending on environment, genetic and lifestyle peculiarities of patients, were quantified.
Results:
Age groups of 35-65 were involved in 70% of cases, those of maximum genital activity in 50.9% of cases and after the menopause in 45% of cases. The sample features: medium level of education, low socioeconomic standards, precarious health education in 45.9% of women, over 50% never seing controlled with a Papanicolaou test or cytohormonal smear. Diagnosis was carried out in advanced stadium (IIB-IIIB) for 75% of cases.
Conclusions:
Though the cancer of uterine cervix is committed oneself to a precocious diagnosis, due to a low level of sanitary education, the absence of the prevention testing concerning cells of the vaginal-cervix, the deficit hygiene, the smoking, the cases are diagnosed tardily, in advanced loco regional stages.
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