Is cervical cancer in Ethiopian women the result of a sexually transmitted disease?

Abstract:

:Cervical cancer is the most prevalent cancer of women in Ethiopia and sexually transmitted diseases are highly prevalent in the country. In order to establish a possible cause and effect relationship between sexually transmitted diseases and cervical cancer, likely etiological socio-economic factors for these two conditions have been analysed. While residence, income, age at first coitus, age, number of sexual partners, marital status/profession and duration of sexual life affect both conditions, there is a significant difference between the most important factors in the etiology of the separate conditions. Serological testing shows a high prevalence of gonorrhea, which was used as a marker of STD. Women with gonococcal antibodies had evidence of increased exposure to other STD; there was no such correlation for cervical cancer. Our results indicate that STD per se is unlikely to be a primary cause of CC in Ethiopia. It appears probable that the etiology of CC in Ethiopia is multifactorial. Early exposure of the immature cervical epithelium to STD, the trauma of repeated childbirth, and multiple sexual partners in women whose defence factors are impaired by chronic malnutrition, add up to a major medico-socio-economic factor. The evidence presented here suggests that CC in Ethiopia is not so much the result of a sexually transmitted disease, but a sociosexual disease.

journal_name

Int Surg

journal_title

International surgery

authors

Duncan ME,Pelzer A,Tibaux G,Mehari L

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-04-01 00:00:00

pages

134-40

issue

2

eissn

0020-8868

issn

2520-2456

journal_volume

78

pub_type

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