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Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon

INTRODUCTION: Precancerous cervical lesion is significantly a health problem globally. Thus, screening targeting women between the ages of 17-60 is being undertaken in developing countries, including Cameroon. Over 50% (7.8 per 100,000) women die of cervical cancer every year. This study was to dete...

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Autores principales: Nkfusai, Ngwayu Claude, Mubah, Tchakounte Minette, Yankam, Brenda Mbouamba, Tambe, Tabe Armstrong, Cumber, Samuel Nambile
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303943
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.174.16895
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author Nkfusai, Ngwayu Claude
Mubah, Tchakounte Minette
Yankam, Brenda Mbouamba
Tambe, Tabe Armstrong
Cumber, Samuel Nambile
author_facet Nkfusai, Ngwayu Claude
Mubah, Tchakounte Minette
Yankam, Brenda Mbouamba
Tambe, Tabe Armstrong
Cumber, Samuel Nambile
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description INTRODUCTION: Precancerous cervical lesion is significantly a health problem globally. Thus, screening targeting women between the ages of 17-60 is being undertaken in developing countries, including Cameroon. Over 50% (7.8 per 100,000) women die of cervical cancer every year. This study was to determine the prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion, the age demography and access the risk factor. METHODS: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from August 09th to October 17th 2017. A total of 60 women participated, and were screened for precancerous cervical lesion. Data were collected by using a questionnaire. Visual inspection with acetic acid and visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine was applied for the screening. SPSS version 16.0 was used for data entry and analysis. Logistic regression analysis was fitted and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals and p-values were computed to identify factors associated with precancerous cervical cancer lesion. RESULTS: Out of 60 study participants, 2(3.33%) were found to be positive for precancerous cervical cancer lesion. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion in women that consulted at the Mezam polyclinic is high.
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spelling pubmed-66072832019-07-12 Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon Nkfusai, Ngwayu Claude Mubah, Tchakounte Minette Yankam, Brenda Mbouamba Tambe, Tabe Armstrong Cumber, Samuel Nambile Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: Precancerous cervical lesion is significantly a health problem globally. Thus, screening targeting women between the ages of 17-60 is being undertaken in developing countries, including Cameroon. Over 50% (7.8 per 100,000) women die of cervical cancer every year. This study was to determine the prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion, the age demography and access the risk factor. METHODS: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from August 09th to October 17th 2017. A total of 60 women participated, and were screened for precancerous cervical lesion. Data were collected by using a questionnaire. Visual inspection with acetic acid and visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine was applied for the screening. SPSS version 16.0 was used for data entry and analysis. Logistic regression analysis was fitted and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals and p-values were computed to identify factors associated with precancerous cervical cancer lesion. RESULTS: Out of 60 study participants, 2(3.33%) were found to be positive for precancerous cervical cancer lesion. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of precancerous cervical lesion in women that consulted at the Mezam polyclinic is high. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6607283/ /pubmed/31303943 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.174.16895 Text en © Ngwayu Claude Nkfusai et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nkfusai, Ngwayu Claude
Mubah, Tchakounte Minette
Yankam, Brenda Mbouamba
Tambe, Tabe Armstrong
Cumber, Samuel Nambile
Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon
title Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon
title_full Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon
title_fullStr Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon
title_short Prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending Mezam Polyclinic Bamenda, Cameroon
title_sort prevalence of precancerous cervical lesions in women attending mezam polyclinic bamenda, cameroon
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303943
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.174.16895
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