title: An audit of the women who died during 1994 from cancer of the cervix in Victoria, Australia.
abstract: An audit of 73 Victorian women who died from cervical cancer during 1994 is presented. Seventy per cent of the deaths occurred in women who were > or = 50 years at the time of cancer diagnosis. Younger women had significantly better screening histories than older women, but overall only 10% of the deaths occurred among women who were adequately screened. There was no excess of deaths in rural women or in women of non-English speaking background. Four of the 6 deaths in women who were diagnosed with cancer while < 35 years of age occurred in adequately screened women. If this finding is confirmed in a larger series, it raises questions about the ability of Papanicolaou screening to control disease in this age group.
authors.affiliation: Victorian Cervical Cytology Registry, Carlton, Victoria.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Medley
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Higgins
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D008875:Middle Aged; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D014626:Vaginal Smears; D014739:Victoria / Q000453:epidemiology