Avtor/Urednik | Uršič-Vrščaj, M; Rakar, S; Možina, A; Takač, I; Šubic, Z; Kodrič, T; Smrkolj, Š | |
Naslov | Clinical audit of patients with cervical cancer in Slovenia - data analysis for the year 2003 | |
Tip | članek | |
Vir | Eur J Gynaecol Oncol | |
Vol. in št. | Letnik 26, št. 5 | |
Leto izdaje | 2005 | |
Obseg | str. 537-42 | |
Jezik | eng | |
Abstrakt | Purpose of Investigation: The data gathered in 2003 on the patients with cervical cancer who regularly attended their gynecologist were analyzed with the purpose of clinical audit. Methods: The data on newly detected patients with cervical cancer in 2003 who regularly attended their gynecologist were gathered simultaneously at three Advisory Boards for Gynecology in Slovenia. Results: Of 149 patients in whom, according to our data, invasive cervical cancer had been diagnosed, 92 (61,7%) patients were examined by a gynecologist in the previous five years. In the majority of these patients, cervical cancer was diagnosed in early, localized disease stage. In the periods of 13-24 and of seven to 12 months before the diagnosis of cervical cancer, almost half the patients had Pap II, and three to six months before diagnosis, 67.6% of patients had Pap II. Conclusion: These results encourage us to proceed with clinical audits to analyze individual cervical cancer cases, including another independent reevaluation of cervical smears in the five-year period before diagnosis. A suitable calendar of refresher training courses on colposcopy, which should be obligatory for all performing this examination method, also needs to be set up. | |
Deskriptorji | CERVIX NEOPLASMS CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE VAGINAL SMEARS MEDICAL AUDIT ADULT MIDDLE AGE SLOVENIA |