title: [Invasive carcinoma of the cervix in young women in Tunisia].
abstract: A series of 133 patients, 35 years or less in age (mean: 31.8) presenting with a carcinoma of the cervix and treated at Salah Azaiz Institute from 1969 to 1989 was analysed and compared to a control group of patients older than 35 years (mean: 54). Neither clinical nor epidemiological particularities were found in the younger patients group, except an early sexual life and a high proportion of early stage tumours (33% versus 15.9% in the older women group). Overall survival of the younger women was dramatically worse than that of the older women: 40% and 50% at 5 years, 20% and 40% at 10 years, and 14% and 30% at 15 years, respectively. This difference is statistically significant in stage I-II patients. Young age, non-sterilization of the tumour after brachytherapy, and anemia, are associated with a poor prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Service de carcinologie-radiothérapie, Institut Salah Azaiz, Bab Saadoun, Tunis.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maalej
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Daoud
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Messaad
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Frikha
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Benna
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hechiche
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rahal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ben Youssef
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ben Romdhane
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ben Abdallah
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Le cancer invasif du col utérin chez la femme jeune en Tunisie.