title: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and cervical cancer risk: a case-control study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have many anticarcinogenic properties via the inhibition of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2). Only one study, a cohort study examining risk of all cancers, investigated their role in cervical cancer with inconsistent findings between non-aspirin NSAIDs and aspirin. The aim of this study was to further investigate NSAID/aspirin use and cervical cancer risk.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using the United Kingdom Clinical Practice Research Datalink, 724 women diagnosed with cervical cancer between 1 January, 1995 and December 2010 were compared to 3479 women (without cervical cancer) matched on year of birth and general practice. Conditional logistic regression analysis adjusted for smoking, sexually transmitted infections, HRT and contraceptive use, was used to calculate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for cervical cancer risk among users of any oral NSAIDs, non-aspirin NSAIDs and aspirin, as assessed from primary care prescribing data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Excluding the year prior to diagnosis, there was no association in adjusted analyses between ever vs. never use of an NSAID (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.77-1.09), non-aspirin NSAID (OR 0.95, 95% CI 0.80-1.13) or low-dose aspirin (OR 1.07, 0.80-1.44) and cervical cancer risk. In analysis of daily defined doses, there was no association with cervical cancer risk comparing the highest users to non-users of NSAIDs (OR 0.98, 95% CI 0.69-1.39) or non-aspirin NSAIDs (OR 1.00, 95% CI 0.70-1.43) or low-dose aspirin (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.59-1.81).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This large historical cohort study found no evidence of an association between non-aspirin NSAID or aspirin use and cervical cancer risk.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Epidemiology and Health Services Research Group, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: O'Rorke
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Gormley
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001241:Aspirin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D006113:United Kingdom; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D001241:Aspirin
keywords: Anti-inflammatory agents; Aspirin; Non-steroidal; Uterine cervical neoplasms