[Detection of threatened pathology and cancer of the cervix uteri during prophylactic examinations (based on the results of a cooperative study)].

Preliminary results are reported on the coordinating studies, conducted by the five oncological institutions of the Russia Federation on elaborating cytological criteria of the cervical epithelium malignant transformation. The material under investigation was the smears taken at mass prophylactic examinations. A group of women (512) with high cancer risk pathology has been distinguished--/various degree of dysplasia, preinvasive cancer, cancer in stage Ia/. A special card of cytological signs (including 40 criteria) was worked out for a computer analysis to select the major signs of malignancy which might contribute to establishing the most precise morphological diagnosis.