DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i10.020

Pages: 3768-3773

Introduction: Carcinoma of cervix is one of the leading malignancies in developing countries including India having an incidence of 14.42 and mortality 2.83 per lakh population .It has a multifactorial etiology. Objectives: To study some socio-demographic risk factors and their strength of association with cervical cancer. Material And Methods: Hospital based case control study was carried out at Obstetrics and Gynecology and Radiotherapy departments, Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur; a tertiary-care, teaching-hospital in Central India. A sample of 130 cases and 130 controls was included. Cases were histopathologically diagnosed patients of cancer cervix from out-patient and in-patient departments. For each case, one concurrent control (i.e. woman with normal pap smear) was selected from the hospital, excluding those women with any other cancer. Analysis: Data in case and control groups were summarized in the form of frequency and percentages. Crude and adjusted estimates of odds ratios (OR) were calculated along with 95% confidence intervals (CI), chi-square test and unconditional multiple logistic regression (MLR) were used to assess associations. Data were analyzed in Epi–info (3.5.1), and SPSS version 18.0. Results: Out of a total 130 cases, majority i.e. 87 (66.9%) were diagnosed in stage IIIB of cervical cancer.