title: Cytological abnormalities of the cervix. Fifteen years' follow-up of a gynaecological cancer survey.
abstract: In a gynaecological cancer survey of 1026 women aged 21 years and over in May 1967, 74 women were found to have cervical cytological changes (designated as mild atypia in 71), which were followed to April 1982. No case of cervical cancer was found (0.3 were expected on the basis of population rates). Six women had had hysterectomies (6.2 were expected on the basis of rates of hysterectomy in the region of the survey). Reports on cervical smears taken since January 1, 1980, were available for 46 (75%) of 61 women who were alive and had not had a hysterectomy. Of these, 11 showed mild atypia; the remainder were within normal limits.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology*; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk; D013997:Time Factors; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology