Social factors and age play a significant role in cervical cancer and advanced-stage disease among Danish women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For cervical cancer (CC), the implementation of preventive strategies has the potential to make cervical cancer occurrence and death largely avoidable. To better understand the factors possibly responsible for cervical cancer, we aimed to examine possible differences in age and social parameters as well as screening status between women with low- or high-stage cervical cancer and matched controls.

Methods

Through the Danish Cancer Registry (DCR), women diagnosed with cervical cancer in Denmark between 1987 and 2016 were included. These were age- and residence-matched in a 1:5 ratio with controls from the general female population. The study population was sub grouped into a low-stage subpopulation with women with early-stage cervical cancer and matched controls an

SUBMITTER: Bonlokke S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10893677 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature