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Baseline human papillomavirus infection, high vaginal parity, and their interaction on cervical cancer risks after a follow-up of more than 10 years

Cancer Causes & Control volume 23, pages 703–708 (2012)Cite this article

Abstract

Objectives

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been recognized as a major factor for cervical cancer causation. Other factors, relating to reproduction, are also important. This study aims to disentangle the roles of baseline HPV infection, high vaginal parity (defined as having ≥4 vaginal deliveries), and the interaction between the two in predicting cervical cancer risk.

Methods

The authors apply a newly developed causal-pie modeling technique to analyze a cohort of more than 10,000 women conducted in Taiwan with more than 10 years of follow-up. The rate ratios adjusted by age and menopausal status were further modeled by an additive Poisson regression with non-negative parameters. The index of causal-pie weight (CPW) was calculated to indicate the proportion of cervical cancer cases attributable to a particular class of causal pies.

Results

It was found that the CPWs are 36.3 % for baseline HPV infection, 35.6 % for baseline HPV infection and high vaginal parity, and 28.1 % for other factors.

Conclusions

A causal-pie modeling based on a women cohort in Taiwan successfully disentangles the roles of virus factors and reproductive factors at study entry, independently or interactively, on subsequent cervical cancer risk.

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  1. Research Center for Genes, Environment and Human Health, and Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shu-Fen Liao & Wen-Chung Lee

  2. Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hui-Chi Chen, Li-Chung Chuang, Mei-Hung Pan & Chien-Jen Chen

  3. Rm. 536, No. 17, Xuzhou Rd., Taipei, 100, Taiwan

    Wen-Chung Lee

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Liao, SF., Lee, WC., Chen, HC. et al. Baseline human papillomavirus infection, high vaginal parity, and their interaction on cervical cancer risks after a follow-up of more than 10 years. Cancer Causes Control 23, 703–708 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-012-9939-4

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Keywords

  • Human papillomavirus
  • Vaginal parity
  • Cervical cancer
  • Interaction
  • Causal model
  • Epidemiologic methods