papillomavirus
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A few oncologists suggested those might be caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV, just as cervical and some other cancers are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Cervical screening involves testing for HPV, human papillomavirus.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
That makes it a bigger risk factor than exposure to UV radiation, poor diet, and infections from pathogens like hepatitis and the human papillomavirus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2025
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
Novavax makes a protein subunit vaccine, the technology used in hepatitis B and human papillomavirus vaccines.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2023
"Herpesviruses and papillomaviruses are probably best known examples. Other viruses in the healthy virome apparently can protect the host from infection by their more aggressive relatives."
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
For instance, Cervarix is an FDA-approved bivalent vaccine that provides protection against two different types of human papillomaviruses that cause cancer.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2022
However, 99% of cervical cancers are caused by human papillomaviruses.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
But that’s not useful, since 85 percent of the population catches at least one of the 100 different human papillomaviruses that circulate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2013
Although he cautions that human papillomaviruses may not necessarily behave the same way, “for the moment we assume that they do”.
From Nature ● Aug. 29, 2012
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