Cervical Cancer

Quantity of Human Papillomavirus DNA a Predictor of Progression to Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 20th, 2000

Two studies published in the June 24 issue of The Lancet suggest that the detection of the amount of human papillomavirus (HPV) in cervical smears could help identify women at risk of cervical cancer.

Infection with certain types of HPV, which is common among young women, increases the risk of cervical cancer. However, less than 1% of young women positive for cancer-related types of HPV develop the disease.

Agnetha Josefsson and colleagues from Uppsala University, Sweden, and a collaborating group from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, investigated whether the amount of HPV DNA is a useful predictor of progression to cervical...

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