[Epidemiologic study by interview on carcinoma in situ of the cervix uteri]

From 1950 to 1979, 1248 patients with cancer in situ of the cervix uteri were treated at the Department of Gynecology, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo. Information was obtained from 585 of these patients by direct interview. Many patients revealed early experience of first sexual intercourse and many had had more than two sexual partners and a large discrepancy between the age at first sexual intercourse and at first marriage. Early experience of first sexual intercourse, marital status and the number of sexual partners all seem to have a relation to the development of cancer in situ.