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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2019; 40(S 01): S33-S37
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_185_17
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Clinicopathological Presentation of Cervical Cancer in Bhopal

Authors

  • Rubal Jain

    Department of Pathology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

  • Rajendra Kumar Nigam

    Department of Pathology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

  • Reeni Malik

    Department of Pathology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

  • Pramila Jain

    Department of Pathology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Abstract

Aim: To study the clinicopathological spectrum of cervical cancers in tertiary care center to assess scenario in Central India. Materials and Methods: Retrospective study in the Department of Pathology in our institution to evaluate cases of cervical cancers from January 2014 to August 2015. Histopathological diagnosis was correlated with age, symptoms, gravida, Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging, and other relevant clinical details wherever deemed necessary. The biostatical analysis was performed for quantitative data student’s t-test was applied. P value was considered statistically significant if P < 0.05. Results: A total of 180 cases were of neoplasia cervix. Majority of cases were squamous cell carcinoma type, i.e., 96.6% (174 cases) followed by adenocarcinoma constituting only 2.8% (5 cases) with a mean age of 50.7 years and average gravida of 3.78. Majority of cases (50.01%) complained of postmenopausal bleeding followed by abnormal spotting (26.67%) and lower abdominal pain (7.78%). The most common presentation was in Stage IIB with 45.56% (82) cases. Conclusion: Histomorphology remains the mainstay of diagnosis of cervical cancers. In low compliance settings such as ours, colposcopy-guided biopsy is the preferred course of management, especially in elderly females to be definite to rule out or diagnose neoplasia. National level cervical cancer program is immediate need of the hour and should include human papilloma virus vaccine, awareness, and screening programs as well as treatment assistance for low socioeconomic strata.

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Cancer - Central India - cervix - clinicopathological


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Article published online:
24 May 2021

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