EVALUATION OF A HOSPITAL-BASED CYTOLOGY SCREENING-PROGRAM FOR REDUCTION IN LIFE TIME RISK OF CERVICAL-CANCER

Hospital based cytology screening is one of the suggested alternative strategies for the developing countries. The present communication att empts to estimate the reduction in lifetime risk of cervical cancer in itiated through a hospital based single lifetime screening programme. The percent reduction in cumulative incidence of cervical cancer durin g lifetime in different age groups of women was calculated after estim ating the number of incident cases in the absence as well as presence of screening. Our analysis revealed that by introducing the single lif e time cytology screening in the group of hospital attending populatio n, an overall reduction in the cumulative incidence of cervical cancer during lifetime was found to be 10.2%. It was further estimated that the reduction was much less in the early age groups (2.4-10.2% in 20-3 4 years) as compared to later age groups (11.2-55.6% in 35+ years).