Carcinosarcoma of the uterus has been poorly characterized on cervicovaginal (Pap) smears, and we examine whether they effectively screen for carcinosarcoma and whether an abnormal Pap smear result has any clinical importance. Twenty-five patients with histologically confirmed carcinosarcoma had a conventional Pap smear shortly before diagnosis. Eleven smears (44%) originally were read as abnor...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is one of the ten most frequent cancers in Turkey. We here examined knowledge about cervical cancer in relation to Papanicolaou (Pap) testing among female primary health care workers in Hatay, a city is located in the south of Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was completed on 261 women healthcare workers who were or had been sexually active and who accepted t...

this study has been designed to compare visual inspection of cervix with acetic acid (via test) with cytology as an accepted method for screening of cervical carcinoma and its precursors. 1200 eligible women were examined by both pap-smear and via tests in imam khomeini hospital, a referral general hospital in tehran, iran. those who had abnormal results in one or both of the screening tests (n...

OBJECTIVE Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the major cause of cervical carcinoma and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia worldwide. Certain HPV types have a strong association with and probably a causative role in the pathogenesis of premalignant cervical lesions. Epidemiologic studies in women infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have shown an increased incidence of squamous intraepi...

Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an effective technique of Soft Computing can model ComputerAided Diagnosis (CAD) system efficiently. CAD system is an essential for the prediction of Malignancy in Cervical Cancer. Cervical Cancer can be cured if it is diagnosed in early stages. Hence, for the effective screening of cancer lesions in the Cervical cell images which are captured using Pap smear ...

OBJECTIVE Evaluating the opportunity and access to diagnosis and treatment for females having had an abnormal Pap smear (high-grade epithelial lesion and cervical cancer) in Colombia from June 2005 to June 2006. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective appraisal using a semi-closed survey of females having had an abnormal Pap smear with high squamous intraepithelial lesions or cervical ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of health care access and socioeconomic determinants on Pap smear screening in Latin America. METHODS Individual-level data was collected from the Demographic and Health Surveys in Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago between 1987 and 2008. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to identif...

© 2013 Harborside Press® Fifty years ago in the United States, the leading cause of cancer death among women was cervical carcinoma. With the advent of the Papanicolaou (Pap) test in 1945, mortality from this malignancy declined more than 70% (Datta et al., 2008; Spitzer, 2007). An annual Pap smear was the recommended guideline for many years. New cervical cancer guidelines were released by the...

Between November 1986 and February 1988, 2806 cervical smears were taken from every patient attending the Obstetrics and Gynaecology consulting clinics at The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Karachi. Of 2806 smears 2774 (98.9%) were adequate, cytology was positive in 35, a prevalence rate of 12.6 per 1000. The highest incidence was in the age group of 2544 years. Eighty percent patients wit...