What is the role of cigarette smoking and various methods of contraception in the development of cervix cancer and its precancerous conditions

: Basis of this trial are examinations of 100 patients with colposcopic and/or cytologic suspicion for precancerous or early stages of cancer of the uterine cervix and of 100 patients in the same age with normal cervical findings. The meaning discussed in literature about cigarette smoking as cofactor for developing cervical cancer and its prestages can be confirmed by our results. The portion of smoking patients with 74 per cent in the cervical groups was higher than in control group (42 per cent). Three times so much patients of the cervical group than in the controls smoked 20 cigarettes per day or more. More than 20 years smoking patients could be found only in the cervical group. 97 patients of the cervical group compared with 55 of the controls had been in the pill. Patients with cervical lesions on the average had been 3 years younger starting with hormonal contraception than the controls. The portion of pill users more than 10 years had been twice frequent in cervical group. The use of condoms was significantly more frequent in the control groups than in the cervical one (22/6). Therefore condoms are to be preferred be cause of protection against sexual transmitted diseases and indirectly cervical carcinom.