[Specifics of individual risks in a group of women with genital neoplasms].

UNLABELLED

Genital cancers represent an important issue regarding women health, as they produce a large number of cases, invalidities and deaths.

AIM

The evaluation of individual risks for a group of women with genital neoplasia.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

We conducted a pilot case-control study to validate the questionnaire for the evaluation of risk factors in genital cancers, in a number of 40 female subjects (20 cases and 20 controls). We have realized the data processing using the SPSS 16 and EpiInfo 3.5.1. soft wares.

RESULTS

For questionnaire validation we have evaluated the reproducibility, the validity, the acceptability and the practicability of the questionnaire. In order to establish the test reproducibility, we have calculated k factors for inter-investigator (k = 0.34) and intra-investigator (k = 0.72) variation. To evaluate the questionnaire validity we calculated the sensitivity (cases = 94%; controls = 97%), specificity (cases = 67%, controls = 75%), positive predictive value (cases = 94%; controls = 94%), negative predictive value (cases = 67%; controls = 86%). The risk factors most frequently identified were genital infectious in clinical records (75% comparing to 52.5% - p = 0.036), and also the presence of other pathological records in genital area (65% comparing to 22.5% - p = 0.0001).

CONCLUSIONS

For an accurate identification of individual risk at women with genital cancers subsequently studies on greater number of subjects is necessary.