Cervical Cancer

Experts Confirm HPV A Major Cause of Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 29th, 1996

Experts have formally labelled the human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 as "carcinogenic to humans", HPV types 31 and 33 as "probably carcinogenic", and suggested that some other HPV types were "possibly carcinogenic".

Ongoing cohort studies of the natural history of HPV infection and precancerous lesions are yet to answer many questions related to the importance of markers of viral load and persistence of neoplastic development. This confirmation came from 55 specialists from 17 countries who attended a recent meeting in Geneva jointly organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Research Organization on Genital Infection and Neoplasia...

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