Time to death and its predictors among cervical cancer patients at Jimma medical center, southwest ethiopia: retrospective cohort Study, 2025

Abstract

Back ground: Globally, cervical cancer death is public health concern. The number of cervical cancer cases is rapidly increasing, with many going untreated or lacking access to treatment, it reduces significantly survival time. Intervening factors that influence the time to death is an important aspect of improving patient outcomes and treatments. Although Jimma medical center offers cervical cancer services, there is limited evidence regarding the time to death on the cases which makes comparison difficult with other settings. Additionally this study incorporates other histologic types and nutritional status as potential predictor which was rarely assessed before