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== Cause of cervical cancer == | == Cause of cervical cancer == | ||
Cervical cancer is caused by infection with certain types of the [[human papillomavirus]], or HPV. While other factors such as the oral contraceptive pill, smoking, a woman's immune system and the presence of other infections also seem to play a part, a woman has to have been infected with certain 'high-risk' HPV types before cervical cancer can develop. High risk types 16 & 18 are responsible for ~70% of all cervical cancers. Abnormal cervical cells are also caused by HPV infection, and these may be detected when a woman has a routine Pap smear. | Cervical cancer is caused by infection with certain types of the [[human papillomavirus]], or HPV. While other factors such as the oral contraceptive pill, smoking, a woman's immune system and the presence of other infections also seem to play a part, a woman has to have been infected with certain 'high-risk' HPV types before cervical cancer can develop.<ref name="ho1998">{{REFjournal | ||
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|title=PV 16 and cigarette smoking as risk factors for high-grade cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia | |||
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|journal=Int J Cancer | |||
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|date=1998-10-29 | |||
|volume=78 | |||
|issue=3 | |||
|pages=281-5 | |||
|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-0215%2819981029%2978%3A3%3C281%3A%3AAID-IJC3%3E3.0.CO%3B2R? | |||
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|DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19981029)78:3 | |||
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}}</ref> High risk types 16 & 18 are responsible for ~70% of all cervical cancers. Abnormal cervical cells are also caused by HPV infection, and these may be detected when a woman has a routine Pap smear. | |||
== Human Papillomavirus (HPV) == | == Human Papillomavirus (HPV) == | ||
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