Neelkamal Kapoor
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Title: Assessing quality of cervical cytology reports – An audit
Biography
Biography: Neelkamal Kapoor
Abstract
Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is the second most common cancer among Indian women. It accounts for 12.5% of all female cancers in Bhopal, India. Cervical cytology is a simple, cost effective and reliable technique for cervical cancer screening; however its accurate interpretation depends on variables such as obtaining adequate samples, proper staining and optimal reporting. The quality of cervical cytology reports can be assessed by various quality indices such as relative percentages of various diagnoses, including the rate of unsatisfactory smears and the atypical squamous cells (ASC) - squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) ratio.
A total of 7813 cervical cytology cases were screened at our center. Of these, 96.6% had no abnormality detected and one hundred and five cases were reported as epithelial cell abnormalities (1.34%). All the epithelial abnormalities reported were categorized and their individual percentages were calculated and results were compared with the CAP benchmarks.