Paraplegia and squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder in young women: findings from a case-control study.
A death certificate-based case-control study was conducted on 207 women aged 25-44 who died of bladder cancer in England and Wales in the period 1971-89 and 411 controls matched on sex, year of death and age at death. An odds ratio of 12.0 (95% CI 1.5-99.7) was found for women with a history of paraplegia. Four of the six paraplegic women were reported to have had squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder compared with only 19 of the 201 non-paraplegic women. These findings suggest that squamous cell carcinomas of the bladder, especially in paraplegics, may be the result of chronic urinary tract infection.
Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000209:etiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003644:Death Certificates; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000150:complications*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D014852:Wales