Comments on: The Pill and Cervical Cancer http://badchemist.net/good-science/the-pill-and-cervical-cancer Science, Pseudoscience and Junk Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:41:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: PJ http://badchemist.net/good-science/the-pill-and-cervical-cancer#comment-57 PJ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:09:58 +0000 http://badchemist.net/?p=38#comment-57 I can't be bothered to coax my connection into retrieving the article itself but a quick glance at the abstract: <em>"Relative risks of cervical cancer were estimated by conditional logistic regression, stratifying by study, age, number of sexual partners, age at first intercourse, parity, smoking, and screening."</em> Suggests that they didn't control for barrier contraception usage. I can’t be bothered to coax my connection into retrieving the article itself but a quick glance at the abstract:

“Relative risks of cervical cancer were estimated by conditional logistic regression, stratifying by study, age, number of sexual partners, age at first intercourse, parity, smoking, and screening.”

Suggests that they didn’t control for barrier contraception usage.

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