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Human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer
2003-12-31
Abstract excerpt
More than 50% of young women who have had sex early in life acquire cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Most of the infections are with the high-risk HPV types, which are potential ethiologic factor for cervical cancer. Although ten or more HPV types are thought to be of high-risk, perhaps less than 30% of such infections persist and less than 1.5% develop cancer. Many previous studies clarify the oncog...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4c5b407b-fe5e-51e3-8522-e4ad15ae508d
- DOI
- 10.14748/bmr.v14.110
