Evaluation of cervical cancer screening programs in the State of Rio Grande do Sul - Southern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Naud, Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: de Matos, Jean Carlos, Hammes, Luciano, Vettorazzi, Janete
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Clinical and Biomedical Research
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/125276
• topic: Câncer de colo uterino; citologia cervical; programas de screening para câncer de colo uterino; Cervical cancer; cervical cytology; cervical cancer screening program

OBJECTIVE: To compare two modalities of cervical cancer screening using Pap Smearthat were carried out in the state of Rio Grande do Sul - Southern Brazil. The first oneis a seasonal and isolated campaign that was promoted by the Brazilian Ministry ofHealth in 1998; the second one is a regular screening program promoted by the RioGrande do Sul State Department of Health from 1991 to 1996. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We carried out a retrospective study of the results of thetwo screening campaigns.RESULTS: Comparison of the Pap smear sample alterations verified from 1991 to 1996by the State Department of Health with the Pap smear sample alterations verified in1998 by the Ministry of Health allowed for the following data, respectively: CIN 1 -0.55%/0.29%; CIN 2 - 0.25%/0.15%; CIN 3 - 0.16%/0.14%; carcinoma - 0.04%/0.04%.Out of the samples collected by the State Department of Health, 58.64% were notrepresentative for squamous columnar junction (SCJ), out of which 13.74% of highgrade lesions were not representative for SCJ and 85.22% of high-grade lesions wererepresentative for ECJ (1.04% of results were ignored).CONCLUSIONS: The isolated campaign of the Brazilian Ministry of Health in the stateof Rio Grande do Sul presented poorer results when compared to the regular screeningprogram promoted by the Rio Grande do Sul State Department of Health, suggesting,thus, that isolated screening efforts do not offer results that are as good as those ofplanned and continuous screening programs. However, the regular screening programhas faults that need to be corrected, such as that in the reduced number of Pap smearsamples representative of squamous columnar junction.