| 2 | Cervical cancer in Calabar,Nigeria显示文摘Objective: To assess the prevalence of cervical cancer and histologic variants as seen in Calabar,Cross River state.Methods: This is a retrospective study involving histologically verified uterine cervix carcinoma between January,1997 and December,2006.Results: There were 1,207 malignancies diagnosed during the study period;175(14.5%) were malignancies of the genital tract while 113(9.4.0%) were carcinoma of the cervix constituting 64.6% of female genital malignancies.Cervical cancer was commonest between the ages of 40-59 years.There was no patient with carcinoma of the cervix below the age of 20 years.Squamous cell carcinoma(87.6%) of the uterine cervix was the main histological type.Conclusion:Cervical cancer is still the most common female genital tract malignancy in Calabar with most of these patients in their middle age.The use of PAS/Alcian blue stain as was used in this study eliminates most false-positive squamous cell carcinomas compared with Haematoxylin and Eosin stains used in most reports from most centres in this part of the world.Epithelial malignancies continue to be the predominant histological variant with squamous cell variety the commonest.There is also an urgent need for introduction of efficient and affordable population based cervical screening programme for early detection,use of vaccines against Human Papilloma Virus(HPV) and treatment of pre-malignant cervical lesions. | Omotoso AJ Agan TU Bassey IE Ebughe GA Ekanem IA Ekanem AD | 2010 | 海南医学院学报2010，16，1： | 0 |
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