title: Epidemiological evaluation of early detection of cervical cancer in Slovenia till 1981.
abstract: Cervical cancer screening is performed in all Slovenia in connection with normal clinical practice since 1960. The results based on the data of Cancer Registry of Slovenia: trends in age, specific incidence rates and the distribution of intraepithelial and invasive cervical cancer incidence rates by communes revealed that cervical cancer screening is efficient in Slovenia; in two commune aggregates only and up to the age 40. A detailed analysis of cases of FIGO stage I into Ia and Ib stage demonstrated a shift of the peak of Ib stage to younger age in the two commune aggregates mentioned. The question is whether this shift of the peak of Ib stage could be an indicator of the unavoidable percentage of rapidly growing tumors in the population of SR Slovenia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D015022:Yugoslavia