TITLE:
Epidemiological and Clinical Profile of Cervix Cancer at Bamako Radiotherapy Center
AUTHORS:
A. Diakité, A. S. Koné, Y. L. Diallo, K. Diabaté, I. M. Diarra, M. Ndiaye, M. A. Camara, M. M. Traoré, A. Traoré, F. M. Sidibé, S. Sidibé
KEYWORDS:
Epidemiology, Clinic, Cervix Cancer
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.9 No.1,
January
18,
2019
ABSTRACT:
Cervical cancer remains a major public health problem in Africa, particularly in Mali. The goal of this work was to investigate the epidemiological and clinical aspects of cervix cancer seen at the radiation therapy center. This was a descriptive study on the retrospective collection of data on patients found in the Radiation Therapy Centre of Bamako, for invasive cervical cancer be-tween April 2014 and April 2017. The average age of our population was 52 ± 12.5 years with extremes ranges from 18 to 95 years. The most represented age group was [50 - 65 years] with 44.2%. The predominant histological type was squamous carcinoma (CE) with 94.2%. Bleeding were found in almost all patients, most often associated with foul smelling hydrorrhea; 80.3% of our patients were stage III and 12.9% of stage IV according to the IFGO classifi-cation. Cervix cancer remains a major public health problem in Mali. The di-agnosis is often late, therefore, resulting in late care and unfavorable progno-sis. Sensitization, vulgarization of vaccination and systematization of screen-ing could be helpful in the fight against this cancer.