Pregnancy after Treatment for Cervical Cancer Precursor Lesions in a Retrospective Matched Cohort
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether treatments for precancerous cervical lesions were associated with lower pregnancy rates compared to rates in unexposed women and women who had a diagnostic cervical biopsy or colposcopy. DESIGN: Matched, retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW), an integrated healthcare delivery system in Oregon and Washington. PATIENTS: Women 14 to 53 years old with KPNW enrollment during the period 1998 through 2009. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Pregnancy after exposure or index date. Pregnancy was defined using a validated algorithm and electronic medical records data. RESULTS: We observed 570 pregnancies following cervical treatment in 4,137 women, 1,533 pregnancies following a diagnostic procedure in 13,767 women, and 7,436 pregnancies in a frequency-matched sample of 81,435 women unexposed to treatment or diagnostic procedures. After adjusting for age and contraceptive use, we observed a higher rate of pregnancies in the treatment group compared to unexposed women (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.42, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.30-1.55), but no difference in pregnancy rates between the treatment and diagnostic procedure groups (HR = 1.03, 95% CI: 0.93-1.13). CONCLUSIONS: No adverse effects of cervical procedures on subsequent rates of pregnancy were observed in this cohort with up to twelve years of follow-up time.
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Two cohort studies in North America assessed pregnancy rates following ablative treatment, showing either increased pregnancy rates for grouped ablative procedures including thermal cautery, or no significant effect for laser treatment and cryotherapy.
“More recently, two cohort studies in North America assessed pregnancy rates following ablative treatment, showing either increased pregnancy rates for grouped ablative procedures, including thermal cautery [24], or no significant effect for laser treatment and cryotherapy [15].”
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- Authors
- Naleway, A. L., Weinmann, S., Krishnarajah, G., Arondekar, B., Fernandez, J., Swamy, G., & Myers, E.
- Affiliations
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- GlaxoSmithKline (United States) (US)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Naleway, Allison L.
- Venue
- PLOS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2015-02-11
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e0117525
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4324989
- OpenAlex
- W1977764059
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 1.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Kaiser Permanente
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Women's cancer prevention and management
- Keywords
- cervical precancerous lesions, pregnancy rate, cervical treatment, colposcopy, contraceptive use, reproductive outcomes
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Precancerous Conditions, Pregnancy, Retrospective Studies, Cohort Studies, Pregnancy Rate, Young Adult
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