Alcoholism and Risk for Cancer of the Cervix Uteri, Vagina, and Vulva

Elisabete Weiderpass; Weimin Ye; Rulla Tamimi; Dimitrios Trichopolous; Olof Nyren; Harri Vainio; Hans-Olov Adami

DOI: Published August 2001

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Table 1

SIR with 95% CI of developing cancer of the cervix during 1–28 years of follow-up among 36,856 women who were hospitalized between 1965 and 1994 for alcoholism in Sweden

	Cervix, in situ					Cervix, invasive ICD-7 code 171
		Observed	SIR	95% CI	Observed	SIR	95% CI
Total	502	1.7	1.6–1.9	129	2.9	2.4–3.5

Age at follow-up^a
<35	180	1.5	1.3–1.8	16	3.2	1.8–5.2
35–49	246	1.8	1.6–2.0	40	2.4	1.7–3.2
50–59	55	2.4	1.8–3.1	35	3.7	2.6–5.2
60+	21	2.7	1.7–4.2	38	2.9	2.1–4.0

^a Age at cancer diagnosis.

Table 2
SIR with 95% CI of developing cancer of the vagina and vulva during 1–28 years of follow-up among 36,856 women who were hospitalized between 1965 and 1994 for alcoholism in Sweden

Vulva^a ICD-7 code 176.0 Vagina ICD-7 code 176.1
Observed SIR 95% CI Observed SIR 95% CI
Total 8 1.0 0.4–2.0 10 4.6 2.2–8.5
Age at follow-up^b
<50 0 — — 1 2.5 0.1–14.1
50+ 8 1.2 0.5–2.4 9 5.1 2.3–9.7

^a Using expected rates specifically for vulva squamous cell carcinoma, the overall SIR was 1.1 (95% CI, 0.5–2.2).

^b Age at cancer diagnosis.