Ações estratégicas para mitigar a incidência de câncer do colo uterino nas militares das Forças Armadas

Abstract

This research has a general objective to mitigate the occurrence of malignant neoplasm of the uterine cervix in the military of the Armed Forces. Cervical cancer is a disease characterized by disordered replication of the lining epithelium of uterus cervix, which may affect local structures, contiguous organs or by distant metastasis and, as it develops at the squamous epithelium in most cases, the most frequent histological type is the squamous carcinoma. Malignant neoplasia of the cervix, in many cases, evolves slowly and from precursor lesions, which can be detectable by preventive examination at an early stage, besides having, as the main risk factor, the permanence of gynecological infection by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), transmitted almost exclusively by sexual contact. The choice of the theme is based in the fact that it is one of the most frequent malignant diseases among Brazilian women, despite the numerous governmental prevention campaigns, a fact that causes great concern among Brazilian Armed Forces health professionals, due to the significant increase in women in their contingents in recent years, in addition to the great interest and professional experience of the researcher for this subject. The main objective of this monograph is to reduce the occurrence of cervix cancer among Brazilian Armed Forces military. Therefore, through a methodological proposal to carry out a retrospective bibliographic review, by qualitative and descriptive aspects, based on research and analysis of national and international publications, the main epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic, treatment and survival aspects of patients affected by this condition will be identified. Besides that, the main public prevention policies that have occurred in Brazil over the recent years will be discussed and, finally, it will be proposed technical and administrative measures to mitigate the incidence of cervix cancer among the military members of Brazilian Armed Forces.