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Women having children by multiple partners have increased cancer risk.
2004 JUL 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cervical cancer rates were 50% higher in women with two or more partners in a study conducted in Italy.
"The more men by whom a woman has children, the more diverse will be the fetal antigens of paternal origin introduced into her bloodstream," wrote R. Campi and colleagues, Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacology Research, Milan, Italy.
The authors studied whether this would impact future cancer risk by using registries identifying 64,704 women who had children with at least two different partners from 1973 to 1996 in Denmark.
They compared cancer rates with those of women who, during the same time period, had more than one birth with no indication of partner change.
When the researchers adjusted for age, socioeconomic factors, parity, and residence, they found "[t]he overall cancer incidence was more than 50% higher in women with two or more partners. Women having children with multiple partners had a higher incidence of cancer of the cervix and corpus uteri, a lower incidence of melanoma, but a similar incidence of breast and ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Women having children by multiple partners have increased cancer risk.