[Possible reduction of cervical cancer by the use of barrier-type contraceptives].
Forty-four cervical cancer inpatients and 44 individually age-matched controls were surveyed. As a result, the number of the cases whose partners used condoms for contraception was significantly lower than that of the controls (P less than 0.01; the odds ratio = 0.2). The same result was obtained after adjusting possible confounding variables such as the number of pregnancies and use of other contraceptive methods. Barrier-type contraceptives like condoms may reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted viral infections, which it has been suggested are associated with the disease.
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003275:Contraceptive Devices, Male; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*