Genital Schistosomiasis as A Risk for Genital Cancer

Abstract

With the present editorial containing more recent information we wish to alert the reader to genital schistosomiasis as a potential risk for genital cancer. Since 1899 that the female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) has received the attention of the scientific community. Effectively, the oldest published FGS case was reported in the Lancet in 1899 [10]. More recently (during the past five years), the authors [11] have investigated "the impact of schistosomiasis by S. haematobium on the high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) and development of atypical cells in a group of rural Zimbabwean women with confirmed high-risk HPV". Their results have showed that between thirty seven women re-examined, genital S. haematobium of a duration of a minimum of five years, was associated with development of high-grade squamous intraepithelial neoplasia, but not with persistent highrisk HPV.