The Association Between Unwanted Sexual Experiences and Early-Onset Cervical Cancer and Precancer by Age 25: A Case-Control Study

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the EOCC study group members: Charitha Attanayake, Royal Women's Hospital Parkville (Data collection); Penny Blomfield, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart (Critical review of article); Dorota Gertig, Victorian Cytology Service Incorporated, Carlton (Conception and design, critical review of article); Peter Grant, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg (Conception and design, critical review of article); Neville Hacker, Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick (Critical review of article); Tom Jobling, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Clayton (Critical review of article); Trishe Leong, Mercy Hospital for Women, Heidelberg (EOCC virology studies); Yee Leung, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco (Data collection, critical review of article); Jan Pyman, Royal Women's Hospital Parkville (EOCC virology studies); Michael Quinn, Royal Women's Hospital Parkville (Conception and design, critical review of article); Matthew Stevens, The Australian Genome Research Facility, Parkville (EOCC virology studies); Jeffrey Tan, Royal Women's Hospital Parkville (Data acquisition, critical review of article); and Gerard Wain, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia (Critical review of article). The authors would like to thank the Centre Against Sexual Assault, Australian Electoral Commission, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for supporting the project. Dr. Yasmin Jayasinghe was provided with scholarship support from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the Arthur Wilson Memorial Scholarship), the Cancer Council of Victoria (Postgraduate Cancer Research Scholarship and grant in aid), and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine Novartis Scholarship for Sexual Health Research) during the course of the project. The project received funding from the Victorian Cancer Agency Tumour Stream Project Grant, and the National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant 568971.