[Cervico-uterine cancer and age]

A retrospective study of 182 cases of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix and 133 cases cases of in situ carcinoma, based on histological classification studies and their relation with mean age, during 1985-1994, is reported in a second level Hospital in Rio Blanco, Veracruz, Mexico. The mean age of invasive cervix carcinoma is 50.2 years and the mean age is not the same in the different clinical stages, stage I 45.1 years; stage II 48.6 years; stage III 54.9 years and stage IV 57.4 years. This finding maybe has clinical importance. The mean age of in situ carcinoma is 43.9 years, late when compare with other series in the literature. Plan some considerations about mass screening cervical cancer program in Mexico.