Incidence of Cancer of Cervix

Maliphant, R. G.

doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4613.978

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“…The over-all outcome of these studies was seen to be clearly in favour of the old belief that marriage tends to decrease the incidence of mammary cancer, whilst increasing the risk of cervical cancer (Clemmesen, 1965). Maliphant (1949), attributed the low incidence of the disease in single women to the comparative absence of cervical infection in this group. That cervical cancer does occur rarely in single women and apparently even in virgins, recalls the inherent tendency of certain individuals to develop cancer, in the absence of any as yet recognizable, extrinsic, predisposing factors.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Cancer of the cervix is predominantly a disease of married women, especially occurring in those who marry at an early age and bear a large number of children. Whatever influence marital status, active sexual life, and child-bearing may have on the development of cervical cancer, the suspected factors (traumatic, infective or hormonal) begin to exert their action at a much earlier age than when their final effect is seen (Maliphant, 1949). There is a vast difference in the mean age a t marriage (14.4 yr), at first delivery (18.7 yr) and at last delivery (29.5 yr)the ages at which the suspect factor is thought to begin its action-and the mean age at which cancer finally presents as a " fait accompli " (46.4 yr).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessment of risk patterns in cancer of the cervix: A comparison between greater Bombay and Western countries

Jussawalla

Deshpande

Standfast

1971

Intl Journal of Cancer

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In order to identify the high-risk groups in the communityCancer of the cervix is often chosen for aetiological studies, because of its widespread prevalence, ease of diagnosis and close association with physical relationship in marriage and childbearing.A substantial number of investigators in Western countries have shown that the major risk factors leading to cancer of the uterine cervix are: early age at first marriage, at first coitus and at first pregnancy and include multiparity, a low socio-economic status, sexual promiscuity, and co-habitation with uncircumcised male partners. The question arises as to whether these factors also apply, to a similar or a greater degree, to women in the developing countries, where the standard of living is low, evidence of malnutrition exists and the majority of women marry and begin to bear children at an early age. The few controlled studies on cervical cancer reported from India (Wynder et al., 1954; Rao et al., 1959; Lakhanpal and Chablani, 1968) offer conflicting evidence with regard to the effect of the risk factors mentioned above. The purpose of the present study was to examine closely the association of certain suspected risk factors in cervical cancer, in the female population of Greater Bombay, to identify the high-risk group in the community, and to compare the results of the study with reported Western experience. Incidence of cervical cancerAlthough cancer of the cervix uteri occurs at all ages, it is mainly observed during middle life. An increase in the age-specific rates is first observed at around the age of 25, followed by a steady rise up to the age of 59. Thereafter an apparent decline becomes noticeable. In fact, most registers report a precipitous rise in incidence of cervical cancer around the age of 30 (Jussawalla et al., 1968).

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Assessment of risk patterns in cancer of the cervix: A comparison between greater Bombay and Western countries

Jussawalla

Deshpande

Standfast

1971

Intl Journal of Cancer

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“…He found that the risk of malignancy in married women with children was twice as compared to the married women without children and it was ten times more when unmarried women were taken into consideration. 16 Purandare et al (1977) in their study found a stepwise chronological progression in severity of epithelial abnormalities increasing with abnormal smear in the years of married life. The number of epithelial abnormalities increased with the parity.…”

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A Prospective Study to Evaluate Correlation Between Reid’s Colposcopic Index Impression and Biopsy Histology

Kulshreshtha¹,

Chouksey²,

Garg³

2017

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“…It has now been established that the annual probability of developing cancer of the cervix is greater in married than in single women (39,(44)(45)(46). It would further appear that early age at marriage and instability of marriage are also associated with this disease (47,48).…”

Section: Marital and Pregnancy Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%