Early Detection Of Cancer: An Overview

Battista, R.

doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.9.1.21

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“…All these put together can bring down the death toll by 60% in our country. 8 Accurate diagnosis and prompt treatment on one side can save many patients but addressing the delay in treatment for cancer on the other side can save innumerable patients who suffer from cancer. A cancer treated earlier has a very good prognosis than the one which is treated once it is in its advanced stage.…”

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Factors Associated with Delay in Treatment of Cancer

Sudhir

et al. 2022

Natl J Community Med

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Introduction: This is a cross sectional study conducted on cancer patients who presented at the peripheral cancer center, Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya with an objective to find out the possible factors influencing the delay in treatment of cancer. Method: Each day the patients coming for radiotherapy treatment were selected, based on the inclusion criteria for the study and an informed consent was taken before collecting the data. Data was collected by questionnaire method and was entered in an excel sheet and analyzed. Result: The result revealed that 65% of the patients belonged to the age group 50-69 and that the delay in treatment significantly increased with increase in age, 80% of the patients were not aware and their median delay was about 60 days, 59% of the patients neglected the symptoms and their median delay was about 60 days, and 5 percent of them took self-treatment and their median delay was 60 days. Conclusion: This study, revealed that 4 important factors, all of which belonged to the patient, were responsible for the significant delay in the treatment. The 4 factors were age of the patient, awareness about the symptom, neglecting the symptom and history of self-treatment.

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Factors Associated with Delay in Treatment of Cancer

Sudhir

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Natl J Community Med

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“…Although PMB is often associated with benign pathologies, the possibility of having an underlying malignancy makes it a sinister complaint requiring thorough clinical workup. Evidence has shown that the early detection of cervical and endometrial cancer improves the cure rate and reduces mortality [6,7] . However, unfortunately, like cervical cancer, there are no useful screening tests available for early detection of endometrial cancer [7] .…”

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A prospective study on evaluation of post-menopausal bleeding among women from rural area attending a tertiary care teaching hospital

Indira¹,

Grover²

2021

Int. J. Clin. Obstet. Gynaecol.

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Introduction: Postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) is a common and early symptom of cervical and endometrial cancer. Its early detection can improve the cure rate and reduces mortality. The aim of this study is to find out the prevalence of bleeding in postmenopausal women in the rural population, its clinical presentation, histopathology incidence of malignancy. Method and Material: A prospective study performed in Maharajah's Institute Of Medical Sciences, Vizianagaram, over 100 women. When women presented to the outpatient with the complaint of postmenopausal bleed were enrolled in the study. Patient's demographic data were collected, the pap and endometrial HPE were studied. Results: The histopathological analysis showed proliferative endometrium (17%), secretory endometrium (10%), and atrophic endometrium (12%), and simple hyperplasia (14%), complex hyperplasia with atypia (8%), endometrial polyp (4%) and cervical polyp in (3%). Squamous cell cervical carcinoma (9%), endocervicitis (13%) of the population, endometrial malignancy in (3%) and no opinion were given in (7%). Conclusion:Postmenopausal bleeding needs a complete history, clinical examination and investigations to detect the cases of malignancy at an earlier date. High-risk women like nulligravida, obesity, diabetes, has to be considered as a special case and extensively investigated to rule out malignancy.

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“…Reporting to health facility at early stages will provide an opportunity to women with PMB to get detected at early stages which in turn will increases their chances of survival and also improve their quality of life. 4,5 Perception of women about menopause and postmenopausal bleeding varies across different social, cultural and economic settings and it may have a greater influence on their treatment seeking behavior. 6 Only a very few studies have tried to explore the perception of women about PMB.…”

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What do women in rural Bareilly think about postmenopausal bleeding? A mixed-method study

Agarwal

Upadhayay

Katyal

2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Perception of women about postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) varies across different social, cultural and economic settings and it may have a greater influence on their treatment seeking behavior. Postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) is an alarming sign of a probable underlying cervical/endometrial cancer. Objectives were to explore the perceptions of causes and treatment of postmenopausal bleeding among menopausal women and to quantify the various perceived reasons for PMB.Methods: It was a sequential exploratory mixed methods study design, where two group interviews were conducted with purposively selected eight postmenopausal women (>30 years of age) in each group (qualitative phase) followed by a house-to-house survey among a representative sample of 1530 postmenopausal women (quantitative phase). The qualitative data was subjected to thematic analysis and quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics in Epi infoTM 7.Results: Women perceived problems in uterus, cancer, improved nutrition, old age, sudden liberation of stagnant blood from uterus body nature as causes for PMB. Lack of seriousness about PMB, stigma, shyness and lack of resources were stated as barriers for treatment of PMB. Among 1530 women surveyed, 40.8% of them didn’t know the cause for PMB. Problem in uterus, cancer and sudden liberation of stagnant blood from uterus were stated as reasons by 17.6%, 16.8% and 8.7% of respondents respectively. About 15.8% and 13.2% of women stated improved nutrition and old age respectively as cause for PMB.Conclusions: Most of the women did not know the reason for PMB and its awareness is crucial for better uptake of screening to detect any underlying pathology at an early stage.

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Early Detection Of Cancer: An Overview

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Factors Associated with Delay in Treatment of Cancer

Factors Associated with Delay in Treatment of Cancer

A prospective study on evaluation of post-menopausal bleeding among women from rural area attending a tertiary care teaching hospital

What do women in rural Bareilly think about postmenopausal bleeding? A mixed-method study

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