[The evaluation how FIGO stage in cervical cancer depends on frequency of gynaecological control].
OBJECTIVE
The authors sought to evaluate how FIGO stage in cervical cancer depends on frequency of gynaecological control.


METHODS
From March 2000 to January 2001, 74 patients with cervical cancer were treated in 2-nd Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Medical University of Gdańsk. The authors analysed frequency of gynaecological control, although patients age, number of delivery, socio-economic status, living place.


RESULTS
The median interval, from last gynaecological examination to cervical cancer diagnosis was 8.6 year (1-26), number of delivery: 0-0.5%, 1-10%, 2-21%, 3-21%, 10-1%, 67% patients lived in town and 32.4% in villages.


CONCLUSIONS
Women from Gdańsk area who developed cervical cancer were not gynaecological controlled from 1 to 26 year (median--8.6). Authors noticed that FIGO stage of ovarian cancer depends seriously on interval between last gynaecological control and cervical cancer diagnosis. The old, not working, and those who live in villages in Gdańsk area have an especially low level of health education.
Klasa-Mazurkiewicz
Dagmara
D
II Kliniki Ginekologii i Połoznictwa Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku.
Emerich
Janusz
J
Milczek
Tomasz
T
D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009819:Office Visits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*