Cervical cancer in Seychelles

ABSTRACT

Cervical carcinoma is a most common cancer of women in Seychelles. Since 1983; Papanicolaou smear diagnosis of cytological specimens of cervix has been carried out. The recent observation is that the incidence of cervical carcinoma is decreasing. With the data on all the cases of cervical carcinoma diagnosed by histopathological examination from 1986 to 1995 in the Republic of Seychelles and demographic data in the same period; a simple epidemiological study of cervical carcinoma was made. Mean age of occurrence for cervico intra-ephithelial neoplasia (CIN) III; microinvasive carcinoma; invasive squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma were respectively 39.8; 40.9; 56.2; 52 years; the annual incidences were 64.3; 17.4; 39.8 and 9.2 per 100;000 women aged 20 years above. It appears that the incidence of cervical cancer has declined over the last decade