Cervical Cancer - Risk Factors

Persistence of HPV Infection is Predictive of Persistent Dysplasia

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 25th, 1995

The persistence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection provides an additional diagnostic tool for determining a woman's likelihood of progressing to cervical cancer versus one who's lesions might spontaneously regress.

Cytologically referred to as squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) or histopathologically referred to as cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), cervical dysplasia is thought to progress in stages to cervical cancer. The majority of mild lesions (CIN stage I) tend to regress spontaneously. Etiological factors for the progression, rather than the regression, of these lesions to cervical cancer is not fully understood.

Gloria Y.F....

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