Visual Inspection after Application of Acetic Acid versus Pap smear in Cervical cancer screening
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Screening for Cervical Precancerous Lesions
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/01/011413
- Lead Sponsor
- Tata Motors Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 146
Inclusion Criteria
Women with or without cervical symptoms like -Abnormal Discharge per vaginum, post coital bleeding, postmenopausal bleeding, inter-menstrual bleeding, irrespective of the appearance of her cervix, willing to undergo cervical cytology test, visual inspection after application of acetic acid and colposcopy directed biopsy for screening for cervical precancerous lesions
Exclusion Criteria
Pregnant women or suspicion of pregnancy, women menstruating at the time of examination and women previously diagnosed or treated for precancerous or cancerous cervical
lesions.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive predictive value and Negative predictive value of Cervical Cytology and Visual Inspection after Application of Acetic Acid and their comparisonTimepoint: Two years
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cervical Cytology and Visual Inspection after Application of Acetic Acid taken together compared to one of these diagnostic modalities aloneTimepoint: Two years