BACKGROUND It is widely known that infection by Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most common curable sexually transmitted infection (STI) among the young population.Chlamydial cervicitis has been suspected in the past to be a risk factor for squamous intraepithelial neoplasia (SIL) and cervical cancer on the basis of case-control comparisons of serological tests. METHODS A total of 110 women...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of a 3-day course of doxycycline to a standard 7-day course for treating uncomplicated chlamydia cervicitis. METHODS During an 18-month period, 77 women with uncomplicated chlamydia cervicitis were randomized to receive either a 3-day or a 7-day course of doxycycline (100 mg twice daily). Tests of cure were performed 3 weeks afte...

What are they? In human health it is generally the case that the more people studied, and the longer the surveillance of them, the greater the number of new occurrences of any specified condition there are likely to be. This is because of the increase in total time ‘at risk’ of having an event, that is, the increased persons-and-time of observation. A rate is an arithmetic way of quantifying th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the success rates and clinical outcomes of cervical cryotherapy applied to cervical ectopy for symptomatic relief. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 124 women who underwent cryotherapy for symptomatic treatment of cervical ectopy were included in this study. Indications for treatment were: abundant leucorrhoea (n = 114), post-coital bleeding (n = 22), recurrent cervicitis ...

Objective:Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of mortality of Uyghur women in Xinjiang, China. Although increased expression of orexin receptor (OxR), known to be strongly expressed in human placenta, has a proven relation to some cancers , there have been few studies of cervical cancer. Thus, we explored this question by evaluating the expression of orexin receptor as a biomarker for sc...

Introduction: Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women and is more common in developing countries such as India, due to lack of good screening tests. The efficacy of the Pap smear is hampered by high inter-observer variability and high false positive and false negative rates. Liquid based cytology has not been shown to improve sensitivity or specificity when compared to Pap s...