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Cervical cancer is among the most common cancers worldwide, causing an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths in 2020. [1] About 90% of these new cases and deaths of cervical cancer occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where screening tests and treatment of early cervical cell changes are not readily available. [1]
Virtually all cervical cancer cases (99%) are linked to genital human papillomavirus infection (HPV); [14] [5] [6] most who have had HPV infections, however, do not develop cervical cancer. [ 3 ] [ 15 ] HPV 16 and 18 strains are responsible for approximately 70% of cervical cancer cases globally and nearly 50% of high grade cervical pre-cancers.
The cause of CIN is chronic infection of the cervix with HPV, especially infection with high-risk HPV types 16 or 18. It is thought that the high-risk HPV infections have the ability to inactivate tumor suppressor genes such as the p53 gene and the RB gene, thus allowing the infected cells to grow unchecked and accumulate successive mutations, eventually leading to cancer.
Cervical cancer is screened either through an human papillomavirus (HPV) test, which looks for high-risk HPV, or Pap test, which looks for abnormal cells, both conducted the same way—by a ...
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HPV, the human papillomavirus, causes six types of cancer, including cervical cancer. Among women aged 20 to 24, cervical cancer incidence dropped by 65% from 2012 to 2019, according to a report ...
ThinPrep pap smear with group of normal cervical cells on left and HPV-infected cells showing features typical of koilocytes: enlarged (x2 or x3) nuclei and hyperchromasia. A koilocyte is a squamous epithelial cell that has undergone a number of structural changes, which occur as a result of infection of the cell by human papillomavirus (HPV). [1]
The Eve Appeal’s research comes as NHS England aims to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040 through cervical screening, which is thought to save around 5,000 lives per year in the UK, and the HPV ...