Læknablaðið - 01.08.1966, Blaðsíða 34

LÆKNABLAÐIÐ
15(5
Meðalaldur kvenna hér á landl nieð annars vegar staðbundið
krabbamein og bins vegar ífarandi kemur allvel heim við erlend-
ar athuganir um þessi atriði (Green).5
Komið befur fram í starfi leitarstöðvarinnar, hve mikilsvert
er að hafa nákvæmt eftirlit með konum, er flokkast sem vafatil-
felli við frumurannsókn. Að jafnaði er allmikill fjöldi kvenna und-
ir eftirliti af þessum sökum, og eykur það talsvert vinnuálag.
Þakkarorð
Við þökkum Júlíusi Sigurjónssyni prófessor fyrir margar leið-
beiningar varðandi tölfræðilega útreikninga og töflugerð og Pétri
H. J. Jakobssyni yfirlækni fyrir aðstoð við klíníska flokkun leg-
bálskrabbameins. Herra Elisa Kalm og starfsmönnum Skýrsluvéla
Reykjavíkur þökkum við aðstoð við gagnaúrvinnslu. Ungfrú Val-
gerði Bergsdóttur þökkum við sérstaklega fyrir vel unnin störf
við frumuskoðunina.
SUMMARY
The Icelandic Cancer Society established Screening station B with
a cytological laboratory in June 1964. Its aim was to scan the Icelandic
female population for gynecological cancer especially carcinoma of the
cervix by using exfoliative cytology.
This paper is a report on the activities and results of Screening
station B in the first year.
The total number of women examined during the first year was
8031. Of those 8004 were in the age group 25—60 or 22,56% of the
total female population in these age groups in Iceland. At the age of
61—69 were 27 females, two of them had invasive cervical carcinoma.
The total number of malignancies detected and verified histologically
was 48 or 5,97 pro mille. Their numbers and forms are as follows:
Eleven cases of invasive carcinoma of the cervix (1,37 pro mille),
thirty three cases of carcinoma in situ of the cervix (4,11 pro mille),
three cases had cystadenocarcinoma of the ovaries (0,37 pro mille)
and one had myosarcoma (0,12 pro mille). A total of 363 benign iesions
were diagnosed clinically and verified histologically (cf. table 10). The
incidence of cervical carcinoma in this study is similar to the inci-
dence found in comparable surveys conducted in some Scandinavian
countries and Great Britain (cf. table 11).
The significance of carcinoma in situ of the cervix and its relation
to invasive carcinoma is discussed. The undisputed value of diagnos-
ing invasive carcinoma of the cervix at an early stage by exfoliative
cytology is emphasized.