Sadhna Bagde1, Rashmi Gupta2, Superna Ganguly3, Amit Bhardwaj4, Sangeeta Jogi5
Cancer of the cervix is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women World Wide. Therefore to curb the disease there is need of awareness of this disease. This study is aimed to categorize the premalignant and malignant lesions at the earliest, to reduce the mortality and morbidity. It also aimed to know the incidence of malignancies at our set up and to calculate distribution of patient in relation to parity and symptoms. DESIGN AND SETTING: Study included 215 patients with complain of white discharge per vagina, per vaginal bleeding and backache attending the gynecology OPD over a period of 05 years. PATIENT AND METHODS: Patients were subjected to cervical biopsy and biopsies were sent to pathology department. Detailed clinical history, age, age at marriage, parity and socio-economic status was obtained. RESULT: Result were classified histopathologically as inflammatory lesions 70 cases, polypoidal lesion were 30, LSIL accounted for 32 cases and HSIL were 20 cases and 30 were malignant lesions. Under malignant category moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma was the commonest. Maximum numbers of patients were subjected to cervical biopsies in 3rd decade of life. Malignancies were common in 3rd & 4th decade of life. Most of the cases were of parity 4. CONCLUSION: Tissue biopsy is a valuable diagnostic procedure on which surgeons and radiologists still rely.
