The Positive Predictive Value of Cervical Smears in Previously Screened Postmenopausal Women: The Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS)
| Autor: | June La Valleur, Vanessa M. Barnabei, George F. Sawaya, James H. Pickar, Sanjay K. Agarwal, Jeanne Mandelblatt, Karla Kerlikowske, Deborah Grady, Thomas E. Snyder, Katherine Bass |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.drug_class Glycogen storage disease type VI medicine.medical_treatment Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Cervix Uteri Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Double-Blind Method Predictive Value of Tests Surveys and Questionnaires Internal Medicine medicine Humans False Positive Reactions Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Aged Vaginal Smears Gynecology Cervical cancer Estrogens Conjugated (USP) business.industry Estrogen Replacement Therapy Hormone replacement therapy (menopause) General Medicine Uterine Cervical Dysplasia medicine.disease Postmenopause Estrogen Predictive value of tests Hormonal therapy Female business Progestin hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Internal Medicine. 133:942 |
| ISSN: | 0003-4819 |
| DOI: | 10.7326/0003-4819-133-12-200012190-00009 |
| Popis: | The benefits and risks of performing annual cervical smears on postmenopausal women are not well defined. The independent effect of hormone replacement therapy on development of cytologic abnormalities is unknown.To determine the positive predictive value of cervical smears in previously screened postmenopausal women and to determine the effect of oral estrogen plus progestin on incident cervical cytologic abnormalities.Prospective cohort study (incidence) and randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (hormone therapy).20 U.S. outpatient and community clinical centers.2561 women with a uterus and normal cytologic characteristics at baseline.Annual smears; oral conjugated equine estrogens, 0. 625 mg/d, plus medroxyprogesterone acetate, 2.5 mg/d, or identical placebo.Incident cytologic abnormalities (atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance, atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance, low-grade squamous epithelial lesion, and high-grade squamous epithelial lesion) and final histologic diagnoses.The incidence of new cytologic abnormalities in the 2 years following a normal smear was 110 per 4895 person-years (23 per 1000 person-years [95% CI, 18 to 27 per 1000 person-years]). Among the 103 women with known histologic diagnoses, one had mild to moderate dysplasia. The positive predictive value of any smear abnormality identified 1 year after a normal smear, therefore, was 0% (CI, 0% to 5.0%) (0 of 78 women); the positive predictive value of abnormalities found within 2 years was 0.9% (CI, 0.0% to 3.0%) (1 of 110 women). In hormone-treated compared with non-hormone-treated women, the incidence of cytologic abnormalities was nonsignificantly higher (relative hazard, 1.36 [CI, 0.93 to 1.99]), largely because of a nonsignificant 58% greater incidence of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (relative hazard, 1.58 [CI, 0.99 to 2.52]).Because of a poor positive predictive value, cervical smears should not be performed within 2 years of normal cytologic results in postmenopausal women. Therapy with oral estrogen plus progestin does not significantly affect the incidence of cytologic abnormalities. |
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