Time trends of age-standardized rate (ASR) of uterine cancer incidence (ICD-10: cervix uteri (C53), corpus uteri (C54)) were compared among 18 selected cancer registries and ethnic/racial groups in East Asia, Europe and the USA. The data source was the World population was used for age-standardization. Figure 1 shows the time trends of ASR of cervix uteri cancer incidence. In East Asia, Hong Ko...

An analysis of the cytological records of almost 300,000 women in the Manchester area shows that the rates of positive/suspicious findings from population screening are highly correlated with the rates of mortality from cancer of the cervix when both are distributed according to the occupation of the husband. The correlation holds for various occupational groupings and for all the individual oc...

Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a common neoplasm among Indian women; in fact, it is the commonest malignancy among rural Indian women. Uterine cervical cancer spreads mainly to the regional lymph nodes, with distant metastasis rarely occurring. Major sites of distant metastasis are lung, bone, and liver. Skin metastasis from carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a very rare event. The reported...

The human embryo develops into a woman as a result of estrogen. It helps maintain our breasts, genitalia, vagina, cervix, and parts of our urinary tract. These tissues are estrogen sensitive. Estrogen, though beneficial in many ways to women, has also been linked to cancer of the breast, uterine lining, and cervix. Excessive amounts of estrogen and prolonged exposure to it, can increase our ris...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer and leading cause of cancer-related death to women in worldwide (Zeng et al., 2011). Human papillomavirus (HPV) which presents in 99% of cervical cancer cases is one of the causative agents of cervical cancer (Walboomers et al., 1999). This small, non-enveloped DNA virus that infects epithelial cells of skin and mucosa, which only replicates in d...

Visual inspection of acetic acid (IVA) is a simple method detecting abnormal cell changes in the cervix (cervix) that may indicate presence precancerous lesions or cervical cancer. Factors such as stigmatization, myths false beliefs associated with examination, taboos against examining female reproductive organs hinder participation. This study aimed to determine factors influence women's parti...

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this review is to summarize clinical trials for patients with cervical cancer treated with irradiation and modifiers of the irradiation response. METHODS: The MEDLINE database was used to identify clinical studies that evaluated modifiers of the irradiation response for patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix from 1970 through 1998. The studies included were pro...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the pattern and frequency of malignant tumours of female genital tract in North Eastern Nigeria. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of surgical biopsy materials. SETTING University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, the only teaching hospital in the North Eastern region of Nigeria. SUBJECTS Three hundred and eighty-two cases of female genital malignancies histologically c...

INTRODUCTION Breast lymphoma accounts for less than 1% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and approximately 0.1% of all breast neoplasms. Most breast lymphomas are classified as diffuse large B-cell lymphomas or as mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas. Concurrent cases of breast lymphoma and cervical cancer are extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 46-year-old woman of un...