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Cervical Cancer Risk Factors
Injectable hormonal contraceptives raise risk of cervical precancer in HPV-positive women
January 19th, 2006
Injectable hormonal contraceptives raise the risk of cervical precancer in HPV-positive women. According to scientists in the United States, "Oral contraceptive (OC) use, hormonal contraceptive use and multiparity are potential risk factors for cervical precancer, cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia 3 (CIN3), but a limited number of studies have adequately accounted for possible confounding effect of oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. To examine the relationships of these factors with CIN3, we conducted an analysis of women (n=5,060) with minimally abnormal Pap smears who were enrolled in the ASCUS and LSIL Triage Study (ALTS), a clinical trial to evaluate...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-19)
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