Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand

Cervical cancer is probably caused by a sexually transmitted agent. A case-control study was conducted in three hospitals in Thailand to investigate further the role of male sexual behavior, particularly regarding sexual contacts with prostitutes, in the development of this disease. Data were obtain...

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Main Authors: David B. Thomas, Roberta M. Ray, Tieng Pardthaisong, Supawat Chutivongse, Supom Koetsawang, Supom Silpisornkosol, Pramuan Virutamasen, William M. Christopherson, Joseph L. Melnick, Olav Meirik, Timothy M.M. Farley, Gustave Riotton
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spelling th-mahidol.177452018-07-04T14:30:09Z Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand David B. Thomas Roberta M. Ray Tieng Pardthaisong Supawat Chutivongse Supom Koetsawang Supom Silpisornkosol Pramuan Virutamasen William M. Christopherson Joseph L. Melnick Olav Meirik Timothy M.M. Farley Gustave Riotton Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Chiang Mai University Chulalongkorn University Mahidol University University of Louisville Health Sciences Center Baylor College of Medicine Organisation Mondiale de la Sante Universite de Geneve Faculte de Medecine Medicine Cervical cancer is probably caused by a sexually transmitted agent. A case-control study was conducted in three hospitals in Thailand to investigate further the role of male sexual behavior, particularly regarding sexual contacts with prostitutes, in the development of this disease. Data were obtained from interviews with 225 married women with invasive squamous cell cervical carcinoma and 791 hospitalized controls, all of whom reported having only one sexual partner, and from interviews with their husbands. Risk of cervical cancer was strongly related to the women's husbands having visited prostitutes without using a condom when the husbands were less than 30 years old. A strong increasing trend in risk in relation to decreasing frequency of the husbands' condom use with prostitutes was observed, and a weaker increasing trend in risk with husbands' estimated lifetime total number of visits to prostitutes was found. The average latent period between the women's likely initial exposure to a sexually transmitted oncogenic agent and her diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer was about a quarter of a century. Regular use of condoms by customers of prostitutes could reduce the number of invasive cervical cancer cases in the general population of Thailand by at least one fourth. 2018-07-04T07:30:09Z 2018-07-04T07:30:09Z 1996-04-15 Article American Journal of Epidemiology. Vol.143, No.8 (1996), 779-786 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008815 00029262 2-s2.0-15844384185 https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/17745 Mahidol University SCOPUS https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=15844384185&origin=inward
institution Mahidol University
building Mahidol University Library
continent Asia
country Thailand
Thailand
content_provider Mahidol University Library
collection Mahidol University Institutional Repository
topic Medicine
spellingShingle Medicine
David B. Thomas
Roberta M. Ray
Tieng Pardthaisong
Supawat Chutivongse
Supom Koetsawang
Supom Silpisornkosol
Pramuan Virutamasen
William M. Christopherson
Joseph L. Melnick
Olav Meirik
Timothy M.M. Farley
Gustave Riotton
Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand
description Cervical cancer is probably caused by a sexually transmitted agent. A case-control study was conducted in three hospitals in Thailand to investigate further the role of male sexual behavior, particularly regarding sexual contacts with prostitutes, in the development of this disease. Data were obtained from interviews with 225 married women with invasive squamous cell cervical carcinoma and 791 hospitalized controls, all of whom reported having only one sexual partner, and from interviews with their husbands. Risk of cervical cancer was strongly related to the women's husbands having visited prostitutes without using a condom when the husbands were less than 30 years old. A strong increasing trend in risk in relation to decreasing frequency of the husbands' condom use with prostitutes was observed, and a weaker increasing trend in risk with husbands' estimated lifetime total number of visits to prostitutes was found. The average latent period between the women's likely initial exposure to a sexually transmitted oncogenic agent and her diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer was about a quarter of a century. Regular use of condoms by customers of prostitutes could reduce the number of invasive cervical cancer cases in the general population of Thailand by at least one fourth.
author2 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
author_facet Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
David B. Thomas
Roberta M. Ray
Tieng Pardthaisong
Supawat Chutivongse
Supom Koetsawang
Supom Silpisornkosol
Pramuan Virutamasen
William M. Christopherson
Joseph L. Melnick
Olav Meirik
Timothy M.M. Farley
Gustave Riotton
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author David B. Thomas
Roberta M. Ray
Tieng Pardthaisong
Supawat Chutivongse
Supom Koetsawang
Supom Silpisornkosol
Pramuan Virutamasen
William M. Christopherson
Joseph L. Melnick
Olav Meirik
Timothy M.M. Farley
Gustave Riotton
author_sort David B. Thomas
title Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand
title_short Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand
title_full Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand
title_fullStr Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand
title_full_unstemmed Prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in Thailand
title_sort prostitution, condom use, and invasive squamous cell cervical cancer in thailand
publishDate 2018
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