title: Review on risk factors of cervical cancer.
abstract: This article reviews risk factors of cervical cancer which have been studied in the following aspects: (1) sociodemographic factors including educational level, urbanizational level, socioeconomic status, race and marriage; (2) sexual activity including age at first marriage, age at first coitus, multiple marriage, multiple sexual partners, broken marriage, unstable sex relationship, syphilis/gonorrhea history, coital frequency, multiple pregnancies and age at menarche; (3) factors related to husband including circumcision, sperm, smegma, previous wife with cervical cancer and occupations entailed mobility of husband and periods away from home; (4) psychosocial factors including stressful emotional status, deprived economic background and discontent home situation; (5) virus including herpes simplex type 2 and papilloma virus; (6) other factors including smoking, barrier and oral contraceptives.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taipei, R.O.C.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chou
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000150:complications; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*