Trend of cervical cancer in Seychelles

A 10-year study of all cervical biopsies and hysterectomy specimens received in the Department of Pathology; Victoria Hospital was carried out. Representative punch biopsies of cervix; either colposcope guided; or taken from non-staining areas of cervix following application of Schiller's iodine paint; and fixed in 10 per cent formal saline in the theatre were received in the pathology department. During the ten year period (1983-1992); 175 cases of cervical cancer were detected. Of these; 66 cases were at the CIN 3 stage; 28 were CIN 3 with microinvasion; 69 cases showed frank infiltrating squamos cell carcinoma; 11 exhibited adenocarcinoma and 1 had adenosquamous features

¿Declina el carcinoma del cuello uterino en San Pedro Sula? / Is the cervix utericarcinoma declining at San Pedro Sula?

Se exponen datos que sugieren que el cáncer del cuello uterino comienza ceder: a) descenso en el porcentaje de papanicolaous anormales. b) poblaciones cautivas con baja incidencia de cáncer en el cuello uterino. Relacionados con un período de 20 años de detección en la ciudad: 1966-1986