Chlamydia infection increases risk of cervical cancer

NEW YORK, (Reuters Medical News) European researchers found that Chlamydia infection increased risk of suffering from cervical cancer.

      In Stockholm, Sweden Karolinska Hospital, Dr. Keng-Ling Wallin and his colleagues on the 118 cervical cancer in women diagnosed with cervical smears carried out before and after the chlamydia tests to 118 women without cervical cancer cervical smear as the control group and found that 8% of cervical cancer patients have a history of chlamydia infection, chlamydia infection in women, the risk of cervical cancer is the clonal spread of illness 17 times.

     Chlamydia infection in the United States is the most common sexually transmitted diseases, new cases each year up to 3 million cases and 2 / 3 of patients with asymptomatic, adverse outcomes if not treated, can cause chronic pelvic pain and infertility. Known human papilloma virus (HPV) infection susceptibility to cervical cancer, but other sexually transmitted diseases and cervical cancer is not clear. The researchers believe that chlamydia infection may change the patient's immune system and make it susceptible to HPV and thus easy to progress to cervical cancer; it may be infected with chlamydia, and other factors such as the joint action of a variety of sexually transmitted diseases, so that cervical cancer increased risk.

     Wallin said Dr. chlamydial infection itself may not increase risk of cervical cancer. Chlamydial infection is relatively common, while cervical cancer rare, it does not have to worry about chlamydial infection are destined to suffer from cervical cancer. Like like HPV, there are many women infected with HPV, but only a few people suffering from cervical cancer, Chlamydia infection does not lead to cervical cancer alone. Such as further studies are similar, health officials may increase the frequency of chlamydia testing, through the treatment of chlamydia infection to prevent cervical cancer. By screening for sexually transmitted diseases may reduce the number of cervical cancer.