[Epidemiologic and histopathologic characteristics of 1280 uterine cervical cancers in Kinshasa].

Objective: Due to the lack of both cancer registry and large scale cervical screening in most african countries, only theoretical studies are available. The objective of our work was to provide epidemiological and histopathological characteristics of cervical cancer based on concrete observations.

Methods: This study was carried out on all cancers (n=5801) collected in the last 10 years from 5 pathology laboratories of Kinshasa; the histologic slides of the cervical cancers (n=1280) were reviewed by at least two pathologists and classified according to the 2014 OMS classification.