We used cytohistologic correlation to determine the clinical significance of atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high grade (ASC-H) in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. A computer search identified 250 Papanicolaou smears from women older than 45 years with a diagnosis of ASC- H. Cases were considered perimenopausal (45 to < 55 years; 150 cases) and postmenopausal ((3)55 years; 100 c...

OBJECTIVES To compare the short-term and long-term effectiveness of human papillomavirus (HPV) tests in Norwegian Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (NCCSP). DESIGN Nationwide register-based prospective follow-up study. SETTING In 2005, the NCCSP implemented HPV testing in follow-up of unsatisfactory, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US) and low-grade squamous intr...

Introduction/Background The pathological changes at different severity stages of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) can give rise to the differences in electrical properties tissues, which lay foundation for screening CIN using non-invasive and cost-effective technique bioimpedance as well paves way easy availability screening, especially developing countries thereby reduction oc...

Geographical widespread data on human papillomavirus (HPV) type-distribution are essential for estimating the impact of HPV-16/18 vaccines on cervical cancer and cervical screening programmes. Epidemiological studies employing a variety of HPV typing protocols have been collated in meta-analyses. HPV-16/18 is estimated to account for 70% of all cervical cancers worldwide, although the estimated...

The study aims to determine the influence of efficiency cervical cancer program on budget execution during COVID-19 pandemic years 2020- 2021. Estimating screened women and using a micro-costing analysis estimate cost treating precancerous lesions in non-pandemic scenario 2020 -2021. Finally, estimation for led by Ministry Health scenarios. was through two scenarios determined, After that, it d...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of genital mycoplasmas, especially Ureaplasma parvum and Ureaplasma urealyticum, in women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS), low grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) and high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), compared to women with normal cytology living in Katowice, Poland. Two sterile sw...

Background: Since cervical cancer is reportedly the seventh most frequent cancer in women in Saudi Arabia and the eighth most frequent cancer among women aged between 15 and 44 years, we wanted to determine the prevalence of abnormal cervical cytology among subfertile women attending the reproductive medicine unit of a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: This was a retr...

Introduction: In Japan, there is free physical checkup programs of cancer screening, by which asymptomatic participants undergo a medical examination at public expense. The present study aims to describe their gynecologic findings and compare them with the literatures reported from general hospitals and selfpaid check-up programs. Methods: Medical records of Japanese women, who underwent gyneco...

The aim of the present study was to determine the value of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in screening patients with preinvasive cervical lesions. Seven hundred thirty-four women diagnosed with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS+) cervical cytology during routine screening had additional cytologic testing and HPV DNA testing within 6 months of their diagnosis, after...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is one of the most common female malignancies with high mortality rates in developing countries. Our purpose was to determine the prevalence of cervical cytological abnormalities by cervical cytology (CC) and the analysis of risk factors in Albanian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 5,416 conventional pap smear tests collected between January 2009 and Jan...