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- Title
Thai Men Who Patronize Prostitutes Place Their Wives at Risk of HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer.
- Authors
Hirozawa, A.
- Abstract
A study shows that for Thai women, infection with human papillomavirus type 16 or 18 is the most important factor in the progression of precancerous cervical lesions to invasive cancer; the risk of cancers associated with these viral types rises with decreasing age at first intercourse and with increasing numbers of pregnancies. The great majority of women with cervical cancer have had intercourse only with their husbands, and their risk of cancer is strongly related to the frequency of their husbands' visits to prostitutes as young men; according to the investigators, most are therefore likely to have acquired carcinogenic types of HIV from their husbands. These are the major findings of three interrelated studies--two involving women with cervical cancer and one involving commercial sex workers in Bangkok and husbands of a subgroup of women with cervical cancer and controls from the first two studies. To investigate risk factors for specific types of invasive cervical cancer, the investigators analyzed data from 232 women with invasive cervical cancer and 291 controls.
- Subjects
THAILAND; MEN'S sexual behavior; PAPILLOMAVIRUSES; CERVICAL cancer; SEX workers' customers; SEXUAL intercourse
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, Vol 33, Issue 5, p237
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2673791