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Cervical Cancer
Recent studies add new data to cervical cancer research
January 27th, 2005
Investigators in Sweden, Austria and Japan have published new cervical cancer data. Study 1: According to a study from Sweden, "We have previously shown that high human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 load in Papanicolaou smears negative for dysplasia is strongly associated with risk for carcinoma in situ (CIS) of the cervix. "Here we study the amount of HPV DNA for some of the most frequent high-risk HPV types as determinants of progression to cervical CIS," reported M. Moberg and colleagues, University of Uppsala. They used real-time polymerase chain reaction "to estimate the normalized viral load of HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 52,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-27)
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