title: [Clinical features and prognosis of cervical cancer in young women].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the prevalence, etiology, clinical presentation and pathological features, treatment and prognosis of cervical cancer in young women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical data of 132 young women with cervical cancer were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Positive rate of human papillomavirus 18 was high in young women with cervical cancer. The primary clinical presentation of young patients with cervical cancer was contact bleeding of vagina, and the signs were out-expanding of cervical mass. The percentage of adenocarcinoma increased. The main treatment for cervical cancer was surgery. The patients had radical hysterectomy plus ovarian transplantation, none of whom had ovarian metastases and menopause syndrome. Prognosis of most patients was good.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Contact bleeding is a significant symptom in young women with cervical cancer. Surgery is first considered in the treatment. Preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy can be used in patients with locally advanced and late stage cervical cancer. Ovarian transplantation during operation can retain the ovary function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, China.
authors.forename: Lanqin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xinguo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D052161:Human papillomavirus 18 / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000150:complications; D011379:Prognosis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy / Q000821:virology; D055815:Young Adult