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© 1990 Oxford University Press

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Oral Contraceptive Use and Invasive Cervical Cancer

FABIO PARAZZINI*, CARLO LA VECCHIA*,**, EVA NEGRI* and RENATO MAGGI{dagger}

*‘Mario Negri’ Institute for Pharmacological Research via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy.
**Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland.
{dagger}First Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, University of Milan 20100 Milan, Italy.

Parazzini F (Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, 20157 Milan, Italy), La Vecchia C, Negri E and Maggi R. Oral contraceptive use and invasive cervical cancer. International Journal of Epidemiology 1990; 19: 259–263.

The relationship between oral contraceptive use and the risk ofinvasive cervical cancer was investigated using data from a hospital-based case-control study conducted in the greater Milan area, Northern Italy. A total of 367 women under 60 years of age with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer was compared with a group of 323 controls admitted for a spectrum of acute conditions, non-gynaecological, hormonal or neoplastic and apparently unrelated to oral contraceptive use. Cases had used oral contraceptives more frequently than controls, the age-adjusted relative risk (RR) being 1.53 (95% confidence interval 0.99–2.36). The risk increased with duration of use: compared with never users the age-adjusted RR was 1.48 for up to two years and 1.83 for more than two years (x12 = 5.28, p = 0.02). Allowing for major identified potential confounding factors, including sexual and reproductive habits, by means of multiple logistic regression, did not explain the associaton (multivariate RR 1.85 for ever use, 1.05 for up to two years and 2.47 for more than two years). When the interaction between oral contraceptive use and parity or sexual habits was analysed, the effects of various factors appeared independent: the point estimate for multiparous oral contraceptive users versus nulliparous never users was 8.01. There was no consistent influence on risk of invasive cervical cancer of age at first use, whereas the RRs were slightly greater for women who had first used oral contraceptives less than ten years before or had last used them less than five years before diagnosis: these findings, however, were far from significant.

Received 1 November 1989


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