Study of Cervical Pap Smear Study and Its Utility in Cancer Screening- An Experience in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Tripura, North Eastern State of India

Khasnabish, Sutanuka; Chakraborty, Ramit; Chakraborty, Debaprasad; Hati, Ganes Chandra

doi:10.18410/jebmh/2017/582

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“…In present study, majority of cases were in the 31-40 years age group (38.5%) and were found to be similar with the study of Bhojani 1,4,5,6,8,9,[12][13][14][15] 4,9,12,13 In present study, most common complaint was abdominal pain followed by discharge per vaginum, something coming out, Burning micturition, bleeding per vaginum, postmenopausal bleeding and post-coital bleeding which found similar to the study of Dhaubhadel et al 15 In other studies (Bisht et al and Nikumbh et al), most common complaint was discharge per vaginum. 1,16 Most common P/S findings in present study was healthy cervix (48.5%) which was comparable with studies done by Khasnabish et al, and Nikumbh et al 1,12 Majority of cases had a parity-3 or more (49.5%) which was comparable with the study of Dhaubhadel et al (50.85%), Aggarwal et al (47.04%) and Misra et al (72.6%). 15,18 The frequency of various epithelial abnormalities were 4% in Sania tanweer et al, 4.8% Panickar et al, 3.2% in Gupta et al and 3.08% in Kalyani et al 14,19,20,21 We noted epithelial abnormalities in 3.65% cases.…”

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Utility of Papanicolaou’s smears in the diagnosis of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix in a tertiary care centre of South Gujarat, India

Gandhi

Shah

2019

Int J Res Med Sci

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Background: "Preventable but not prevented", this is the reality of cervical cancer today, at least in developing countries. 80% of all the cases of cervical cancer occur in these developing countries. In India, cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in women. The Papanicolaou test is simple, quick, and painless. It is capable of detecting cervical cancer at an early stage and is used widely in developed countries, where it has decreased both the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer. Objective of the study was conducted to determine the importance of conventional Pap smears for the diagnosis of inflammatory, premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2017 to June 2018 on 2000 women coming for a Pap smear examination in Government Medical College attached to New Civil Hospital, Surat. After doing Pap stain, all cases were reported as per the 2014 Bethesda system.Results: A total of 2000 cases of Pap smears were received out of which 1914(95.7%) cases were satisfactory for evaluation, 86(4.3%) cases were unsatisfactory. The frequency of epithelial abnormalities was 3.66%. The age group of 51-60 years showed the highest epithelial abnormalities. The frequency of epithelial abnormalities in asymptomatic women was 2.3%. Out of the 1844 cases, 103(5.6%) showed changes of atrophy, 1011(54.8%) cases showed inflammatory/reactive changes, whereas organisms were seen in 558(30.3%) cases.Conclusions: Pap smear happens to be an economical, safe and pragmatic diagnostic tool for early detection of cervical cancer.

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Utility of Papanicolaou’s smears in the diagnosis of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix in a tertiary care centre of South Gujarat, India

Gandhi

Shah

2019

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“…In a cervical cancer screening programme conducted in a tertiary care hospital of Tripura abnormal Pap smears were observed. Pap smear was suggested to be an elementary, economical, safe and yet highly sensitive screening test for early detection of carcinoma cervix42.…”

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Cervical cancer screening in rural India

Srivastava¹,

Misra²,

Srivastava³

et al. 2018

Indian Journal of Medical Research

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Cervical carcinoma is one of the most common and dreaded diseases of women, and in India, it accounts for 16 per cent of total cervical cancer cases occurring globally. The situation is more alarming in the rural areas where the majority of women are illiterate and ignorant about the hazards of cervical cancer. Different screening strategies such as rural cancer registries and camp approach for cancer detection have been found useful in minimizing the problem of cervical cancer in the villages. Various screening techniques such as visual inspection with acetic acid, visual inspection with Lugol's iodine, visual inspection with magnification devices-magnavisualizer, Pap smear and HPV-DNA testing have been suggested and tried under low-resource settings of our country, and cervical cytology screening has been found effective in reducing incidence of the disease. In the present review, feasibility of different screening methods has been assessed to find out the most suitable mode applicable at the rural level. Single lifetime screening particularly of high-risk women along with analysis of cost-effective tumour markers such as Argyrophilic nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR) counts to discriminate high-risk dysplasia cases appears to be an appropriate approach in fighting against cervical cancer.

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“…A low incidence of 8.3% was also reported by Khasnabish et al in a rural screening in Tripura, North East State of India. 14 A low incidence of SIL ranging from 2.6% to 2.9% have been reported by many investigators across rural India. (Agarwal et al 15 Sharma et al, 16 Labni et al 17 and Satyanaryana et al 18 ).…”

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Our seven years experience of rural cervical cancer screening in Lucknow, India

Misra¹,

Srivastava²,

Singh³

2021

IJOGR

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This study was undertaken with aim to create awareness among rural women regarding hazards and risk factors of carcinoma cervix and offering single life time cytological screening for early detection of the disease. This was essential as majority of the rural women were illiterate and have poor personal genital hygiene. The present screening program was planned through organizing camps by counseling and motivating 100 women from each village for undergoing Pap smear examination. During last 7 years, a total of 186 camps have been organized in three Blocks of Lucknow, India and 2949 of the 5286 women attending the camps underwent Pap test. Cytological findings were analyzed in these 2949 women in relation to different risk factors of the disease.The squamous intraepithelial lesions of cervix (SIL) were seen in 498 cases (16.8%) while atypical squamous epithelial changes of unknown significance (ASCUS) were observed in only 234 (8.2%). The SIL incidence was found high for all risk factors of cervical cancer like young age, multiparity and vaginal discharge. Candida albicans was found more common and associated with inflammatory and SIL conditions of cervix.The organization of rural cervical cancer screening programs through camp approach and offering single life time cytological examination of cervical smears in rural women may prove very effective in the detection of large number of SIL cases, the adequate treatment of which will check the progression of the disease and minimize the incidence of carcinoma cervix and associated mortality in rural India.

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Study of Cervical Pap Smear Study and Its Utility in Cancer Screening- An Experience in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Tripura, North Eastern State of India

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Utility of Papanicolaou’s smears in the diagnosis of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix in a tertiary care centre of South Gujarat, India

Utility of Papanicolaou’s smears in the diagnosis of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix in a tertiary care centre of South Gujarat, India

Cervical cancer screening in rural India

Our seven years experience of rural cervical cancer screening in Lucknow, India

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