INCIDÊNCIA DAS LESÕES PRECURSSORAS DO CÂNCER DO COLO UTERINO NAS DIVERSAS REGIÕES DO BRASIL

Abstract

The Human Papilloma Virus plays an important role in cervical carcinogenesis and constitutes a public health problem in Brazil, so the Papanicolaou test is the most used method for screening and early detection of intraepithelial lesions caused by this virus. The objective is to verify the incidence of intraepithelial lesions of the uterine cervix in different regions of Brazil and to identify the possible variables involved in the statistical differences between Brazilian regions. The data obtained were searched in the SISCOLO database in the period of 2011, where the Southeast region had the highest number of exams performed in the period under study. The highest percentage of low-grade intraepithelial lesions occurred in the region. Midwest (1.06%), followed by the Southeast (0.99%) in relation to the total number of preventive exams. The highest percentage of invasive carcinoma occurred in the North region (0.03%). It is important that improvements are implemented, such as increasing women's access to care and information, involving the control of diagnosis and treatment of pre-existing pre-cancer lesions so that they can obtain some reduction in the incidence rates of lesions caused by the HPV virus and, consequently, a reduction in mortality from cervical cancer in Brazil.