Microinvasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix in a 14-year-old adolescent: case report and literature review.
BACKGROUND
Cancer of the uterine cervix is rare during adolescence. The reported rates are 0/100,000 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years and 1.7/100,000 women aged 20 to 24 years. However, several studies have shown increasing incidence of preneoplastic lesions at increasingly early ages.


METHODS
This paper reports a case of microinvasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix in a 14-year-old patient with menarche at 10 years of age and first coitus at 12 years of age. The objective of the present report was to alert gynecologists and pediatricians regarding the need for cervical carcinoma prevention among sexually active adolescents, based on educational programs that explain the purpose of colpocytological examinations and encourage their use, along with condom use and limitation of the number of sexual partners.
Gonçalves
Carla Vitola
CV
Mother and Child Department, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Quintana
Silvana Maria
SM
Marcolin
Alessandra Cristina
AC
Duarte
Geraldo
G
Costa
Juvenal Soares Dias da
JS
Karam
Fabine
F
Bianchi
Mônia Steigleder
MS
D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000473:pathology*; D003075:Coitus; D003127:Colposcopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*