Significance of Lipid profile in Carcinoma of Cervix: A Tertiary Hospital Based Study

Cervical cancer is one of the leading cancer related death among women worldwide (Satija, 2013). Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women worldwide accounting for 9% of all female cancer and 9% death in females due to cervical cancer. Worldwide it is seventh cancer with estimated 530,000 new cases in 2008 accounting for 4% of cancer worldwide. More than 85% of the global burden is seen in developing countries compared to western countries and it accounts for 13% of all female cancers. In India, 134,000 were detected to have cervical cancer, out of which 72,825 women died of cervical cancer in 2008 (Globocan, 2008; Misra et al., 2009). At our institute cervical cancer accounts for about 17.5% of total cancers in females (Kalyani et al., 2010). Lipids are high energy yielding molecules and include fats and oils, waxes, phospholipids, steroids and other related compounds. Fats and oils are made from two kinds