The biological role of smoking, oral contraceptive use and endogenous sexual steroid hormones in invasive squamous epithelial cervical cancer

D Hellberg, U Stendahl - Anticancer research, 2005 - ar.iiarjournals.org
For at least twenty years, epidemiological studies have found a correlation between cervical
neoplasia and smoking and oral contraceptives. Over the last ten years, laboratory evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Correlations between serum progesterone and smoking, and the growth fraction of cervical squamous cell carcinoma

A Lindström, T Backström, D Hellberg… - Anticancer …, 2000 - diva-portal.org
BACKGROUND: Possible correlations between growth fraction of squamous cervical
carcinomas and serum progesterone (se-P) concentrations, smoking habits and DNA ploidy …

Correlation between serum estradiol/progesterone ratio and survival length in invasive squamous cell cervical cancer

D Hellberg, AK Lindström, U Stendahl - Anticancer research, 2005 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background: There is epidemiological and laboratory evidence for an association between
invasive squamous cell cervical cancer and female sex steroid hormones, such as oral …

Associations between ten biological tumor markers in squamous cell cervical cancer and serum estradiol, serum progesterone and smoking

AK Lindström, U Stendahl, T Tot… - Anticancer research, 2007 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background and Aim: To study possible associations between selected tumor markers and
co-factors in squamous cell cervical cancer. Materials and Methods: Ten biological tumor …

The role of steroid contraceptive hormones in the pathogenesis of invasive cervical cancer: a review

M Moodley, J Moodley, R Chetty… - International Journal of …, 2003 - ijgc.bmj.com
Invasive cervical cancer remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, especially
among women in the developing world where screening is either deficient or absent. Of all …

Sex steroids and cervical cancer

D Hellberg - Anticancer research, 2012 - ar.iiarjournals.org
During the 19th century, studies indicated that reproductive events were involved in cervical
cancer. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a prerequisite for development of cancer …

Smoking and oral contraceptives as risk factors for cervical carcinoma In situ

N Ylitalo, P Sørensen, A Josefsson… - … Journal of Cancer, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is probably a necessary but definitely not a sufficient cause of
cervical carcinoma. However, it remains unclear which factors, in addition to HPV, are …

[HTML][HTML] A case–control study of endogenous hormones and cervical cancer

TS Shields, RT Falk, R Herrero, M Schiffman… - British journal of …, 2004 - nature.com
Both parity and oral contraceptive use are associated with elevated circulating levels of sex
hormones, at least transiently, and with increased risk of cervical cancer in human …

Endogenous sex steroids and risk of cervical carcinoma: results from the EPIC study

S Rinaldi, M Plummer, C Biessy, X Castellsague… - … , biomarkers & prevention, 2011 - AACR
Background: Epidemiologic data and animal models suggest that, despite the predominant
role of human papillomavirus infection, sex steroid hormones are also involved in the …

Carcinoma of the cervix and tobacco smoking: collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 13,541 women with carcinoma of the cervix and 23,017 women without …

International Collaboration of … - … journal of cancer, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Tobacco smoking has been classified as a cause of cervical cancer, but the effect of different
patterns of smoking on risk is unclear. The International Collaboration of Epidemiological …