Publications by authors named "M P Vessey"
Background: This analysis provides the final results on cancer incidence in relation to oral contraceptive (OC) use from the Oxford-Family Planning Association (Oxford-FPA) contraceptive study, which closed at the end of 2010. An additional 6 years of observation have been added since our last report and there has been an increase in the numbers of cancers of over 50% at seven of the sites considered.
Study Design: The Oxford-FPA study includes 17032 women aged 25-39 years recruited from 1968 to 1974 at contraceptive clinics in England and Scotland.
Objectives: In August 2008 the British reality TV star Jade Goody made public her diagnosis of cervical cancer. In February 2009 it was announced that she was terminally ill and she died a few weeks later. A surge in cervical screening attendances associated with these events was widely reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaricose veins and haemorrhoids: findings in the Oxford-FPA study.
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care
January 2012
Background: This analysis updates mortality in the Oxford-Family Planning Association (Oxford-FPA) contraceptive study, with emphasis on oral contraceptive (OC) use.
Study Design: The Oxford-FPA study includes 17,032 women recruited from 1968-1974 at contraceptive clinics, aged 25-39 years, using OCs a diaphragm or an intrauterine device. Follow-up has been to March 2009; by then, 1715 women had died.
Objectives: To analyse cervical screening coverage data by age over time in a number of developed countries throughout the world, with specific emphasis on trends for younger women and on age differentials between younger and older women.
Methods: Routinely collected cervical screening statistics and survey data were collected on the proportion of women who have undergone cervical screening with cytology in seven countries in the period 1995 to 2005.
Results: Data for the 25-29 age group were examined.