Epidemiology of Cancer of the Cervix II, Buffalo, New York2

Abstract

An investigation was done to determine whether petients with cancer of the cervix from Buffalo and Kenmore, New York, differed from a random semple of women from the seme communities on a variety of parameters associated with marital and reproductive history. A comparison of the 285 patients and 1,620 controls showed that petients were more likely than controls to have been black and non-Jewish, to have married young, to have had more than one husband, and to have been young at the time of their first pregnancy. In addition, they were more likely to have frequently used the vaginal douche and to have used it over many years. As frequency of douche increased, so did risk of cervix cancer.