Relationship between cervical cancer and risk factors：a case-control study

Objective To explore the relationship bewteen the occurrence of uterine cervix cancer and risk factors.Methods Totally 112 cervical cancer patients and 200 controls were collected from three hospitals in Xiaemen city during 2007-2010.Face-to-face questionnaire survey was conducted among the subjects to get the information about cervical cancer and its related factors.Results There sults of single-factor logistic regression showed that the age at first sexual inter-course, the age of first parturition, level of folic acid and the vitam in B₁₂, drinking tea, passive smoking, the sanitation of sexual behavior, and the times of parturition were associated with cervical cancer.The results of the multi-factor logistic regression showed that passive smoking and parturition more than twice were risk factors and paying attention to sanitation of sexual behavior, drinking tea, and with the content of folic acid more than 10nmol/L were protective factors of cervical cancer.Conclusion Passive smoking and giving birth to more children could promote the occurrence of cervical cancer and with supplement of folic acid, keeping healthy sexual behavior, and drinking tea may be the effective factors to prevent cervical cancer.