Cervical cancer Flashcards
Primary cervical cancer prevention
- abstinence
- smoking cessation
- vaccination
Secondary cancer prevention
- Screening cytology
(epithelial layer) - HPV typing
- Treatment
Sensitivity
Specificity
Sensitivity: if you have disease, test will tell you that.
Specificity: if you are healthy and do not have disease, my test will tell you that
neg test result
Prevalence
Incidence
Prevalence: already present in pop
Incidence: new disease
LSIL =
HSIL =
LSIL = CIN1 : mild dysplasia, condyloma
HSIL = CIN 2 : moderate dysplasia
HSIL =CIN 3: severe dysplasia, carcinoma in situ
True/False invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervic does not arise de novo
True
It is instead preceded by intraepithelial precursor lesions, which are composed of DYSPLASTIC SQUAMOUS CELLS
~25% of squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx are associated with HPV, which type?
HPV 16
- oral genital sex