Table 4 Intensity of common symptoms when first seen by a physician among cervical cancer patients (n = 1575)
From: Cervical cancer in Ethiopia – predictors of advanced stage and prolonged time to diagnosis
Symptoms | Intensity of symptoms | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
None | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Unknown | ||||||
N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | |
Vaginal bleeding | 115 | (7.3) | 404 | (25.7) | 977 | (62.0) | 74 | (4.7) | 5 | (0.3) |
Pelvic pain | 442 | (28.1) | 213 | (13.5) | 858 | (54.5) | 57 | (3.6) | 5 | (0.3) |
Vaginal discharge | 424 | (26.9) | 331 | (21.0) | 814 | (51.7) | – | 6 | (0.4) | |
Constipation | 1267 | (80.4) | 101 | (6.4) | 197 | (12.5) | 5 | (0.3) | 5 | (0.3) |