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Cancer
Investigators at University of Washington publish new data on cancer
June 4th, 2009
"Given the established links among young age at first intercourse (AFT), number of sex partners, high-risk human papillomavirus infection, and squamous cell cervical cancer (SCC), we hypothesized that women diagnosed with SCC at younger ages would be more likely to report young AFT than women diagnosed later in life. We performed a population-based investigation among invasive SCC cases who were diagnosed between 1986 and 2004, were ages 22 to 53 years, and lived in the metropolitan Seattle-Puget Sound region (n = 333)," scientists in the United States report. "Using multivariate linear regression, we estimated coefficients and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) to...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-04)
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