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Risk Factors for Cancer Cervix

cancer cervixPapillomavirus is a necessary cause but not enough of this cancer. Other conditions may occur such as smoking, multiple sex partners. Some risk factors can increase the risk that a woman is diagnosed with cancer of the cervix. Among these include:

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Infection by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV)

* Today, it is estimated that almost all cancers of the cervix is linked to HPV. Papillomavirus (HPV) are a cause necessary but not sufficient for cervical cancer. If they are removed from most women, they persist in others and participate in the development of cancer of the cervix. The most virulent strains are HPV 16 and 18;

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