Abstract

PARRA PENA, Ersilia; GUTIERREZ GALLARDO, Juan Félix; RODRIGUEZ RAMIREZ, Mercy D  and  SANTIESTEBAN AGUILERA, Martha. Cervical Cancer Screening through Videocolposcopy. ccm [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.1, pp. 112-126. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: cervical cancer is one of the most frequent and the leading causes of mortality in almost all the world, the peak incidence occurs between the fourth and fifth decade of life with increasing tendency in recent years in young women. The human papillomavirus is considered a fundamental etiological factor in relation to risk factors that acting synergistically could evolve towards the malignant disease and pass through states of intraepithelial lesions in a time up to twenty five years, which makes it easier to detect and preventable, where the videocolposcopy occupies paramount place. Objective: to evaluate the results of cervical cancer research through videocolposcopy. Method: a case series study was carried out in Calixto García municipality of Holguín province, between January and December 2013. The study population included 92 patients who were attended at Benign Neck Pathology Consultation, the sample comprised 79 patients who underwent videocolposcopy. Results: the ages of 35 to 44 years represented 38% of the patients studied; the early onset of sexual intercourse was evident in 51.9%; 39.2% reported two to four sexual partners; 25.3% had negative organic cytology from two to three years. Benign conditions prevailed with 29.1% of the colposcopy diagnoses. There was correlation between colposcopy, cytological and histological diagnoses. Conclusions: videocolposcopy proved to be a very useful method for the early diagnosis of premalignant lesions of the cervix, even in patients with updated negative organic cytology prior to examination.

Keywords : screening; cervical cancer; videocolposcopy.

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