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    Características Clínico - Epidemiológicas del cáncer de cuello de útero en mujeres mayores de edad en el área de ginecología del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso periodo 2015- 2019
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2020-07-02) Cruz Martínez, Joselyn Vanesa; Fajardo Chabla, Katherine Ximena; Villa Plaza, Carmen Mercedes
    Background: Cervical cancer (CC) is a type of cancer in which glandular and squamous cells are normal, but they transform until they are precancerous and cancerous. In Quito- Ecuador, during 2006, 133 women with CC were diagnosed, 55 die each year. Objective: To determine the clinical-epidemiological characteristics of cervical cancer in women of legal age in the gynecology area of the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital period 2015-2019. Methodology: The present study has a non-experimental quantitative approach; a crosscorrelational design was used. The universe (N=71) is made up of the total number of patients treated between 2015-2019 with the diagnosis of CC, the technique is the review of medical records and, the instrument, a data collection questionnaire. The analysis was performed with the SPSS 22 program using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Women with cervical cancer are characterized because their menarche started at 14 years old on average, their sexual relations at approximately 18 years old, most of them have only had a pap smear, they have not had STIs, they have had pelvic pain, breakthrough bleeding, as well as comorbidities, the most prevalent, anemia. 44% have an unspecified malignant tumor, 8.5% are in stage I, 12.7% in stage II, 25.4% in stage III and 9.9% in stage IV. The most recurrent treatments are oncological and surgical.