Abstract:
The incidence and mortality of cervical cancer remains high in India even after sixty years of introduction
of the Pap smear (cervical cytology) which is an effective means of identifying preinvasive lesions of carcinoma
cervix. The morbidity and mortality due to cervical cancer has come down drastically in countries with well
established screening programmes at national level. This study aims at screening women for cervical cancer
opportunistically during their visit to hospital and to study various types of neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions
of the cervix by cervical smear study (Pap smear study). In the present study, a total of 350 cervical smears
were studied. The age of patients ranged from 19 years to 80 years with mean age being 37.5 years. Out of 350
cases, the diagnosis of neoplasia was given in 43 cases and 258 cases were diagnosed as inflammatory smears.
