Marriage and childbearing in relation to cervical cancer

In order to assess any correlation between cervical cancer and age at marriage and childbearing, matched control groups were formed. From the comparison it appears that cervical cancer patients are more likely to be married and to have married at an earlier age than control women. In the same age groups at marriage there was no difference in the number of children between the cervical cancer patients and the control women. It appeared that cervical cancer patients had their first child earlier than control women. There were more illegitimate children in the cervical cancer groups than in the control groups, but after the wedding date there were no differences between the cervical cancer groups and the control groups in the time between the wedding date and the date of birth of the first child. The data show that after pregnancy or childbirth, in particular at an early age, there is a greater risk of getting a cervical cancer. By contrast, nulliparous married women seem to have a low risk of cervical cancer.