The treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

Treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, both squamous and glandular, is based on the premise that this condition may ultimately progress to invasive cancer. Treatments have evolved in a conservative direction resulting in reduced morbidity yet also achieving satisfactory control of disease. As yet there is no way in which those cases that have malignant potential can be distinguished from those that do not. Satisfactory management is dependent upon the exclusion of an invasive process. Cytologic, colposcopic and histologic confirmation of preinvasion are therefore natural precedents to management.