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Health Status Report update This update supplements the 2000 Health Status Report by providing updated information for many aspects of the health of our region. |
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The incidence of
invasive cervical cancer has decreased
significantly over the last 40 years, due in large
part to organized early detection programs.
Although all sexually active women are at risk for
cervical cancer, the disease is more common among
women of low socioeconomic status, those with a
history of multiple sex partners or early onset of
sexual intercourse, and smokers. Cervical cancer
deaths are very troubling because the majority of
discovered cases are treatable. Approximately 80 new
cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed each year
in Ontario, and about 150 women die from this
disease annually. In LGL, the incidence rate has
been quite variable over the past 20 years (see figure 1).
Incidence rates observed between 1992-1995 were
considerably higher than in the late 1980. This
trend appears to be occurring locally as well as
in the province as a whole. Between 1993-1995 the number of
incident cases discovered among women residing in
LGL was very similar to the number being
discovered per women in all Ontario (see
figure 6). Between 1981 and 1996
there were 57 deaths due to cervical cancer in LGL,
an average of 3.5 deaths per year. Between 1992
& 1996 the average crude mortality rate due to
cervical cancer in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark was
4.8 deaths per 100,000 women (see figure 2).
Between 1994-1996 very similar mortality rates
were observed in LGL and Ontario from cervical
cancer (see figure
3) . Because cervical cancer
treatment is so successful, proper screening is
very important. In 1996, 45% of women 18 years of
age and older, living in the combined regions of
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark, Kingston, Frontenac,
Lennox and Addington, and Hasting and Prince
Edward (LGL/KFLA/HPE) had ever been screened for
cervical cancer (i.e. a Pap Test). Women 18 to 24
were less likely to have a Pap Test. In LGL/KFLA/HPE
29% of women within this age group had a Pap Test
(see figure 4).
Of these women, 77% in LGL/KFLA/HPE and 79% in
Ontario had the test in the last three years prior
to 1996 (see
figure 5). Data
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