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ArticleThe West Indian medical journal2014

A Thirty-year Review of Vulvar Cancer in Jamaica, 1978 to 2007.

M E Bromfield, T N Gibson, B Hanchard, N Waugh, D McNaughton

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Article in The West Indian medical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Vulvar cancer: a review for dermatologists.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2015
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M E BromfieldJamaica Cancer Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies. mahiri.bromfield02@uwimona.edu.jm.
T N GibsonJamaica Cancer Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies.
B HanchardJamaica Cancer Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies.
N WaughJamaica Cancer Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies.
D McNaughtonJamaica Cancer Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies.
University of the West Indies System · JMUniversity of Technology, Jamaica · JM

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo evaluate the trends in vulvar cancer between 1978 and 2007 in Kingston and St Andrew, Jamaica, with respect to age-standardized rates and histologic types.

methodsAll cases of vulvar cancer recorded in the Jamaica Cancer Registry from 1978 to 2007 were extracted and analysed for age distribution and histologic type.

resultsThere were 78 cases (one person of unknown age) of vulvar cancer recorded over the 30-year period. Sixty per cent of the affected patients were between 50 and 80 years old. The most common histologic type of vulvar malignancy was squamous cell carcinoma (82%). There was a decline in age-standardized incidence rates of both vulvar cancers overall and vulvar squamous cell carcinoma over the 30-year period.

conclusionSquamous cell carcinoma is the most common vulvar malignancy in the Jamaican population, and affects primarily older women. Despite high prevalence rates of high-risk human papillomavirus infection, no increase in the age-standardized incidence of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma was identified.

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PMID25303246
PMCPMC4655644
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