.Effect of Different Contraceptive Methods on Cervical smear

Abstract

SUMMARY Cervical smear is an important easy method to examine the cervix for malignant and premalignant changes. One of the risk factors concerned with cervical malignancy, is the use of contraceptive methods. It is important also to know other risk factors which may increase the incidence of cervical malignancy such as the sexual history including sexually transmitted diseases, age of sexual activity and number of partners, also smoking, dietary factors, male factors, socioeconomic and demographic factors. So, it's important to follow up all women in their sexual life periodically by cervical smearing to isolate and treat almost all cases rapidly, and the suspicious cases are to be under periodic follow up and avoid risk factors. As regard the effect of different contraceptive methods on cervical smear, the combined oral contraceptives increases the risk of squamous intraepithelial lesions and this risk increases with the duration of use, relative risk decreased with increasing time since last use.