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Article: Lifetime exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and cervical intraepithelial neoplasms among nonsmoking Taiwanese women.
- Article from:
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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RECENTLY, CERVICAL CANCER has become the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in Taiwanese women (annual age-standardized morbidity rate: 23.8/100,000 females in the year 2000). (1) It is also the 6th leading cause of cancer mortality among women (annual age-standardized death rate: 9.0/100,000 females). Exfoliative cytology screening (i.e., Pap smears) can reveal high-grade squamous intraepithelial neoplasms, including moderate (cervical intraepithelium neoplasm II [CIN2]) and severe (CIN3) dysplasias. These neoplasms and dysplasias are precancerous cervical lesions. If left untreated, at least 25% of the dysplasias will progress to either in situ carcinoma or invasive ...
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