Intra-epithelial and early invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix

ABSTRACT

Ninety-nine patients with suspicious and positive cervical cytology smears seen at the University Hospital during the period 1966-1970 have been investigated. Symptoms referrable to cervical pathology were present in only one-third of the cases, and only a small number of the cervices showed a clinical suspicion of cancer. There was good overall cytohistological correlation except for the cases with Class IIIB smears a high proportion (80 percent) of which showed malignancy in the biopsy material. Treatment regimes for the different pre-clinical lesions are discussed. A disturbing feature was that only 36 percent of patients treated by conization alone attended for cytological follow-up. (AU)