Trend of cervical cancer in Seychelles

ABSTRACT

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