[Cervical screening in Bulgaria. An analysis of the basic indices over the period 1970-1994]

The aim of the present study was to analyze the results from the cervical screening in Bulgaria for the period 1970-1994, by studying the following indicators: incidence, mortality, frequency of carcinoma in situ and stage distribution of the cases with invasive cervical cancer. The relatively constant incidence and mortality until 1987 were evident, after that they shoved increasing and for 1994 they are 19.7% and 7.6% respectively. The similar is the data for the correlation carcinoma in situ/invasive cancer and for the stage distribution of the cervical cancer patients. The obtained results showed, that cervical cancer remain medico-social problem for our country, because the introduced in 1970 cervical cytological screening at the moment is not effective enough.