Underscreened Women Remain Overrepresented in the Pool of Cervical Cancer Cases in Spain: A Need to Rethink the Screening Interventions

Table 1

Age and history of previous screening cytology in women with cervical cancer and women with a normal cytology.

	Control women		Women with cervical cancer		value
	= 23,782	% column	= 313	% column
Age
<30 years	5.224	22,0%	12	3,9%	<0,0001
30–39 years	5.879	24,7%	56	18,0%
40–49 years	5.426	22,8%	84	27,0%
50–59 years	4.277	18,0%	47	15,1%
60–69 years	2.378	10,0%	41	13,2%
70 years	598	2,5%	71	22,8%
With at least one cytology in the last 10 years
With cytology	18.733	78,8%	82	26,2%	<0,0001
Without cytology	5.049	21,2%	231	73,8%
Age-standardized coverage ratio					0,3

There are 2 ages missing.
10 women with cervical cancer had a prior cytology performed over 10 years ago and they were excluded for the analysis.