Survival status and predictors of mortality among patients with cervical cancer in two oncology units in Northwest Ethiopia: a retrospective follow-up study
Aragaw Tesfaw, Adamu Addissie, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Sefonias Getachew · 2025
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Tesfaw and co-authors (2025) followed cervical cancer patients at two hospitals in northwest Ethiopia to measure survival and find what predicts death. Cervical cancer is the commonest cancer and a leading killer of women in the region, yet local survival data are scarce. The team reviewed patients diagnosed and treated from 2017 to 2022, adding telephone follow-up.
Survival fell steeply: about 81 percent at two years, 56 percent at three, and 37 percent at four, with under 19 percent alive at 52 months. In a worst-case reading that counts the lost as dead, the figures drop further. Death came sooner for women over 50, women living with HIV, and those traveling more than 65 kilometers. It also came sooner for those without surgery and those diagnosed at late stages, where the risk was several times higher. The authors call for wider screening and treatment services, especially where radiotherapy is missing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aragaw Tesfaw, Adamu Addissie, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Sefonias Getachew |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |