Gynecologic malignancies may have similar histological characteristics. This may lead to difficulties in determining the origin of the cancer and to distinguish a synchronous neoplasm from a metastatic cancer in advanced cases. Recently, we treated a 59-year-old patient with adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix, endometrium, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. It was difficult to determine whether th...

Cancer of the uterine cervix is the 5th most deadly type of female cancer [1]. It is clearly demonstrated that HPV infection is the necessary, but not the sufficient cause of most cervical cancers [2]. The association between cancer of the uterine cervix and HPV is unique because no other human cancer is dependent on a single infectious factor for its development [3]. Worldwide, HPV types 16 an...

The female genital tract is an infrequent site of metastasis. Diagnosis of metastatic extragenital malignancy to the cervix on cervical-vaginal smear is extremely rare. We performed review of the database with diagnosis of malignant neoplasm metastatic to the uterine cervix between 2006 and 2011. These examples of metastatic extragenital malignancies to the cervix are lymphoma, and two colorect...