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Risk of high-grade precancerous lesions and invasive cancers in high-risk HPV-positive women with normal cervix or CIN 1 at baseline-A population-based cohort study.
International journal of cancer - 15 Apr 2017
Mittal Srabani, Basu Partha, Muwonge Richard, Banerjee Dipanwita, Ghosh Ishita, Sengupta Mitali Mukherjee, Das Pradip, Dey Priatosh, Mandal Ranajit, Panda Chinmay, Biswas Jaydip, Sankaranarayanan Rengaswamy
Abstract excerpt
Infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) is transient and clears on its own in majority of the women. Only a few women who have persistent infection may finally develop cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) or cervical cancer in later years. The risk of progression in the HR-HPV-positive women with normal cervix or low-grade lesion on colposcopy and histopathology at baseline is less studied. We...
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