[Sociomedical aspects of cancer of the uterine cervix (author's transl)].
Statistics on long-term results in the treatment of cancer of the cervix are usually based on clinical data, so that they are not sufficiently randomized. The author attempted to follow up the subsequent fate of patients with cancer of the cervix who had been granted a disability pension from the sickness insurance fund of the workers' compensation board in North-Rhine Westphalia effective 1969/1970. In view of the fact that after a lapse of 8 to 9 years it is no longer possible to obtain medical data as completely as would be desirable, the inquiry was limited to finding out the amount paid out every month, the old-age pension, and the year of death. 30.5% of the 583 pensioners had died, whereas 30.5% were still recipients of disability pension because of this disease, and 17.0% had in the meantime become old-age pensioners (2.6% cancellations of pension payments and 19.4% pensions for a limited period). Of the 178 deceased, 76.5% died already within the first 3 years after having been granted the pension; thereafter, the annual death rates decreased continually by 6.5% to 2.8%. Attention is drawn to the advantages offered by a pension for a limited time with the possibility of getting it extended. The results of this study are supplemented by statistics on mortality, ability to work and amount of pension granted, as well as references from literature on the incidence and long-term results in carcinoma of the cervix.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D011897:Random Allocation; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D014942:Workers' Compensation
Die sozialmedizinische Bedeutung des Gebärmutterhalskrebses.