Office Detection of Gynecologic Malignancy; Is It a Reality?

Abstract

Is the medical profession fulfilling its obligation to make every physician's office a cancer detection center? A survey of physicians in Milwaukee County indicates that it is not. In no category of medical practice, not even obstetrics and gynecology, was there 100 per cent application of the Papanicolaou test. Neither was there 100 per cent application of dilatation and curettage for postmenopausal bleeding in any category. An encouraging disclosure was the routine performance of endometrial biopsy as a screening test by almost 59 per cent of the obstetricians.