Identification of Tobacco- Specific Carcinogen in the Cervical Mucus of Smokers and Nonsmokers

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BACKGROUND: In 1996, an estimated 15,700 new cases of cancer of the uterine cervix and 4,900 deaths from this disease were expected to occur in the United States. In a recent international study, human papillomavirus DNA was found in more than 90% of cervical tumor specimens examined, irrespective of the nationality of the patients from whom the samples were obtained. Although infection with human papillomavirus...

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