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CANCER DETECTION SURVEY GYNÆCOLOGICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA
Author(s) -
Con Aileen F.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47049.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cervix , cervical cancer , epidemiology , gynecology , cancer , incidence (geometry) , breast cancer , obstetrics , cancer registry , carcinoma in situ , physics , optics
The results from further analysis of a questionnaire from 1,069 new patients attending a cytology clinic during a two‐year period are presented. The age of first coitus for patients with intra‐epithelial carcinoma‐in‐situ of the cervix ranged from 14 to 21 years. Venereal diseases, oral or non‐hormonal contraceptives, and circumcision of the husband were unrelated to cervical cancer in the group studied. Among these 1,069 unselected women, 20% of those who were menstruating admitted to some disturbance of their menstrual cycle, and the incidence of “break‐through” bleeding was 12.7% in those taking oral contraceptives. Seven per cent had had a previous cancer, most commonly a skin cancer. Of the women with treated breast cancers, 18% had a dysplastic cervix. It is recommended that all women who have been diagnosed as having breast cancer should have annual cervical cancer smear tests. Because of the small size of the sample, no particular epidemiological factor in the causation of cervical cancer has been elicited.