[Screening for endometrial carcinoma in a group at risk].

In a population-based study 923 asymptomatic women with diabetes aged 40 to 70 years were investigated by aspiration curettage. The samples were evaluated histologically. During the initial screening 4 histologically proved endometrial cancers were diagnosed.

[Changes in the vaginal flora caused by supporting pessary treatment in pregnancy].

200 pregnant women with supporting pessary treatment because of cervical insufficiency were compared with one of normal pregnancies concerning microbiological findings and puerperal morbidity. -- 5,5% of the women in the supporting pessary group had pathogenic organisms in their cervix before first amnioscopy, compared to 2% in the control group. The different results of cultural microbiologic examinations in both groups depend on type and duration of birth as well as time of amnion rupture.

[Oestradiol receptors in endometrial carcinomas (author's transl)].

Tissue samples taken from endometrial carcinomas as well as from normal and hyperplastic endometria were tested for oestradiol receptors. Roughly one and the same amount of receptors was recordable from all three tissue groups. In premenopausal women, receptor levels were lowest in the advanced phase of secretion.

[Risk group oriented early detection of cervical cancer? (author's transl)].

In a retrospective case-control-study 500 women with a carcinoma in situ of the cervix uteri and 500 controls were examined by a standardized interview and compared by matched pair analysis. 8 risk factors for ca in situ were found indicating a lower social status, earlier sexual activities and more frequent inflammations of the cervix uteri. However screening programs should not be restricted to such women because it is difficult and expensive to identify and to reach the high risk group.

[On the therapy of uterine cervix carcinoma in situ].

It is reported of 607 cases of uterine cervix carcinoma in situ from the years 1963 to 1977. During this period, the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as well as the histological preparation technique have advanced. -- 75% of the cases were primarily conized.