Table 4. Screening mode of screen smear (i.e., between 1 and 6 years before the diagnosis) or work-up smear (<1 year before the diagnosis) sub-divided into age cohorts of all 286 cervical carcinoma cases.
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Screen smear (i.e., between 1 and 6 years before the diagnosis)
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Work- up smear (i.e., <1 year before the diagnosis)a
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| Screening programme | Outside screening programme | Screening programme | Outside screening programme | Cytology >6 years or no cytology preceding the diagnosis | Total | |
| Number (% of row totals) | Number (% of row totals) | Number (% of row total) | Number (% of column total) | |||
| ⩽28 years | — | — | — | 5 (83.3) | 1 (16.7) | 6 (2.1) |
| Age 29–33 years | 5 (25.0) | 1 (5.0) | 8 (40.0) | 3 (15.0) | 3 (15.0) | 20 (7.0) |
| Age 34–38 years | 19 (46.3) | 4 (9.8) | 2 (4.9) | 10 (24.4) | 6 (14.6) | 41 (14.3) |
| Age 39–43 years | 19 (37.3) | 9 (17.6) | 8 (15.7) | 6 (11.8) | 9 (17.6) | 51 (17.8) |
| Age 44–48 years | 11 (34.3) | 3 (9.4) | 3 (9.4) | 11 (34.4) | 5 (15.6) | 32 (11.2) |
| Age 49–53 years | 7 (20.6) | 4 (11.8) | 3 (8.8) | 11 (32.4) | 9 (26.5) | 34 (11.9) |
| Age 54–58 years | 6 (28.6) | 3 (14.3) | 2 (19.0) | 6 (28.6) | 4 (19.0) | 21 (7.3) |
| Age 59–63 years | 8 (44.4) | — | 3 (16.7) | 2 (11.1) | 5 (27.8) | 18 (6.3) |
| ⩾64 years | 2 (3.2) | 4 (6.3) | — | 21 (33.3) | 36 (57.1) | 63 (22.0) |
| Total screening age (29–63 years) | 75 (34.6) | 24 (11.1) | 29 (13.4) | 49 (22.6) | 40 (18.4) | 217 (100) |
| Total overall | 77 (26.9) | 28 (9.8) | 29 (10.1) | 75 (26.2) | 77 (26.9) | 286 (100) |
The cases of women within age cohorts (29–63 years; n=217) of the Dutch screening programme indicated as age strata.
a
This includes women with a work-up smear, who also had a smear taken >6 years before the diagnosis but not between ⩽1 and 6 years before the diagnosis: 14 out of 18 (77.8%) women who were categorised in the period >6 years before the diagnosis had a work-up smear. The remaining four women are included in the category No cytology <6 years before the diagnosis, along with women without any smear in the past (n=73), giving a total of 77.