The Occurrence and Pattern of Uterine Cervix Lesions in the Tropics: The Igbo Women of Eastern Nigeria Experience

Abstract

The diseases of the uterine cervix varied in presentations and two major types have been confirmed to be benign i.e. soft tissue neoplasias, which long have been said to contain sufficient cellular pointer to stromal sarcoma advancement. The other is papillomavirus-related cervical intraepithelial neoplasias which is precancerous lesions [1] and may not always advance to cancer as they spontaneously can regress when stimulus is removed. The duo development is associated in part to lots of factors which when incident on squamocolumnar junction can engender histologic changes [2]. The periodic changes of transformation of the cells of the anterior or posterior cervical lips particularly at menopause [3] or before cellular metaplasia of the region predisposes the susceptible site to evolution of several cancer lesions [4] which may occur more often than when there is short period benign lesion giving rise to same cancer.