Abstract

VAZQUEZ MARQUEZ, Angela et al. Risk factors of cervicouterine cancer. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2008, vol.34, n.2. ISSN 0138-600X.

OBJECTIVES: to expose the results of an analytical case-control study conducted among 330 cases from the six municipallities of Cauto region that presented uterine cervix cancer and that were attended at the departments of Cervix Pathology and Oncology of "Carlos Manuel de Céspedes" University Hospital of Bayamo, Granma province, from 2003 to 2006. METHODS: a univariate, observational, binary logistic regression case-control study was carried out. RESULTS: previous pregnancies, early sexuality, cervicitis, vaginal sepsis, leukoplasia and cervical tearing were variables that influenced in an independent and significant way on the appearance of cervical cancer. CONCLUSIONS: age, ectopy and ectropion that are hypothetically influential did not show any association with the appearance of cervical cancer. The incidence rate in this study was 19.2 x 10 000 inhabitants.

Keywords : Cancer; cervix; papilloma virus.

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