Epidemiology of cervical cancer--overview.

LA Brinton - IARC scientific publications, 1992 - europepmc.org
Numerous studies of the epidemiology of cervical cancer have shown strong associations
with religious, marital and sexual patterns. Although it is well established that women with …

Epidemiologic and mucosal immunologic aspects of HPV infection and HPV-related cervical neoplasia in the lower female genital tract: a review

MY Tjiong, TA Out, J Ter Schegget… - International Journal of …, 2001 - ijgc.bmj.com
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are known to play an important role in the
pathogenesis of cervical neoplasia. Considering the morbidity and mortality of cervical …

Seminal plasma differentially regulates inflammatory cytokine gene expression in human cervical and vaginal epithelial cells

DJ Sharkey, AM Macpherson… - Molecular human …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Exposure to semen elicits an inflammatory response in the female reproductive tract of
rodents and other animals. The nature and regulation of any similar response in humans is …

Epigenetic repression of E-cadherin by human papillomavirus 16 E7 protein

J Laurson, S Khan, R Chung, K Cross, K Raj - Carcinogenesis, 2010 - academic.oup.com
A common feature shared between several human cancer-associated viruses, such as
Epstein-Barr virus, Hepatitis B virus and Hepatitis C virus, and Human papillomavirus (HPV) …

Effect of cigarette smoking on cervical epithelial immunity: a mechanism for neoplastic change?

SE Barton, D Jenkins, J Cuzick, PH Maddox… - The Lancet, 1988 - Elsevier
Langerhans' cells in cervical epithelium in colposcopic biopsy specimens were identified by
immunocytochemical staining for S100 protein and T6 (CD1) antigen, and their density was …

Novel association of a diverse range of genes with renal cell carcinoma as identified by differential display

FK Rae, SA Stephenson, DL Nicol… - International Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We have used differential‐display PCR (DD‐PCR) to compare renal‐cell carcinoma (RCC)
and normal kidney gene expression with the aim of identifying genes specifically associated …

Tobacco smoking impairs the local immunosurveillance in the uterine cervix: an immunohistochemical study

WAJ Poppe, PS Ide, MPG Drijkoningen… - Gynecologic and …, 1995 - karger.com
Previous reports have supported an association between tobacco smoking and cervical
neoplasia. Our observations show an association between smoking and a reduction of the …

Expression of the classical and nonclassical HLA molecules in breast cancer

GBRF Silva, TGA Silva, RA Duarte… - … journal of breast …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Considering that downregulation of HLA expression could represent a potential mechanism
for breast carcinogenesis and metastasis, the aim of the present study was to use …

Anatomy and histology of the cervix

A Ferenczy - Pathology of the female genital tract, 1977 - Springer
Although the cervix was recognized as an organ entity as early as 4500 BC during the third
Egyptian Dynasty, it was Soranus, in the first century AD, who gave the first accurate …

[PDF][PDF] Risk factors for cervical cancer in northeastern Thailand: detailed analyses of sexual and smoking behavior

S Natphopsuk… - … Pacific Journal of …, 2012 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Cervical cancer is a serious public health problem in Thailand. We investigated possible risk
factors for cervical cancer including HPV infection, p53 polymorphism, smoking and …