Analysis of the clinical-epidemiological profile of patients with cervical cancer in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais

Objective: to analyze the profile of women with cervical cancer between 2018 and 2022 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Methods: A descriptive study with a quantitative approach was carried out using data from women diagnosed with cervical cancer cancer registered in the hospital records of the José Alencar Gomes da Silva National Cancer Institute. Results: in the four-year period from 2019 to 2022, 342 cases of patients diagnosed with cervical cancer were registered. Conclusion: women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer were in the age group of young adults, brown, with high school education, married, with an important history of alcoholism and smoking and cancer in the family, the clinical cancer was advanced in the degree of carcinogenesis, squamous cell carcinoma was the most common histological type, Surgery was the most commonly used therapeutic modality, and partial remission was achieved in most cases one year after the start of treatment.