Cancer of the Cervix in Jewish Women

Abstract

CONSPICUOUS in the demography of cancer is the infrequency of cancer of the cervix in Jewish women. Kennaway,¹ in 1948, carefully summarized all the available reports relevant to this observation, pointing out that many of the early surveys did not distinguish cancer of the cervix from cancer of the corpus uteri. Review of these reports shows that many of them, including the more recent ones, fail to furnish evidence that the diagnoses were confirmed by the customary routine methods of pathological examination of excised tissue. Other data that were lacking made accurate assessment of the question impossible. Since Kennaway's report . . .