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Precancer of the human cervix.
Cancer surveys - 1 Jan 1998
Pontén J, Guo Z
Abstract excerpt
The tumour biology of cervical precancer is unusual. A large variety of individually distinct forms crudely divided into slight, moderate, severe dysplasia and carcinoma in situ exist. Virtually all contain genital human papillomavirus (HPV) either as infectious virions or as episomal or integrated DNA. HPV, which occurs as hundreds of types, subtypes and variants, has a high prevalence in all human populations....
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