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Beta-HPVs Increase Likelihood of Squamous Cell Skin Cancers
Beta-HPVs Increase Likelihood of Squamous Cell Skin Cancers
J Smith
20100608
2010 Jul 8
Elsevier Global Medical News
Beta-HPVs Increase Likelihood of Squamous Cell Skin Cancers
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Jul 8, J Smith
A new population-based study has demonstrated an association between a group of human papillomaviruses viruses and an increased incidence of squamous cell carcinomas, adding weight to the emerging body of evidence that one genus of HPV may play a role in nonmelanocytic skin cancers. The findings, published online July 9 in BMJ (BMJ2010 July 9 [doi:10.1136/bmj.c2986]), showed that seropositivity to more than one of a host of 16 beta HPV types increased the likelihood of being diagnosed with a squamous...