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Semen aggravates cervical cancer

Advice for condom use gets an extra boost.

Deciding not to use a condom can have a host of potentially negative side effects: including, scientists now say, aggravating cancer.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 01, 2006
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In addition to prostaglandins, semen contains very high concentrations of at least a dozen peptide hormones, including one of the most potent mitogenic substances yet discovered, gastrin releasing peptide (GRP). A priori, these substances must normally have actions in the female genital tract. Any insights into the physiologic functions? Might GRP accelerate cell proliferation in cervical cancers?

Posted by: James Ryan | September 4, 2006 06:06 PM

It is well known that sexually active women when infected with HPV could lead to cervical cancer. Now the knowledge of enhancement of agressiveness of cervical cancer with semen is equally devastating. Cervix apart from being an immunocompromised site of females is most sucesptible to a host of bacterial and fungal infections. Hormonal bost for cancerous cells could definetly worsen the case. But how safe is a condom from protecting PGs and hormones not crossing the latex tissue of the condom??

Posted by: B.Ravi Kiran | September 6, 2006 12:30 PM

Any thought or consideration given to the fact that a sexually active woman, may already be using condoms and spermicides? What is the effect on cervical cells or these cancer cells when exposed to the various spermicides?

Also, what about exposure to depleted uranium found in the semen of troops returning from Iraq or Afganastan. There is a very high rate of birth defects in children born to contaminated soldiers. The chemical and radiological effects on cervical cells from any possible radiological contaminate should be examined.

Posted by: Kathy Czar | September 11, 2006 09:53 PM

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