Clinico-social profile of the patients with cervical carcinoma: experience from a tertiary care hospital in kolkata

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Swapan Kumar Mallick., Asifullah., Arup Chakraborty., Arista Lahiri and Saroj Kumar Haldar

Introduction: cervical cancer is one of the most common cancer in women especially in India. Radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy and/or surgery is the main treatment modality. Current study explored the clinical and social aspects of the patients along with their outcomes.
Materials and Methods: Socio-demographic and clinical profile as well as treatment outcome of the study subjects were obtained from the records. They were analyzed and results are mentioned with the help of tables and diagrams.
Results: Most of the cervical cancer patients were of the age 40-60 years with locally advanced carcinoma. Patients in majority received radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy and/or surgery. External beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy was the most common modality of therapy. Patients mostly completed their treatment.
Discussion: Most of our results were in concordance with other international findings, since most of cervical cancer patients are middle-aged female with locally advanced carcinoma receiving radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy and/or surgery.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.10989.1889
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