Conization for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is followed by disappearance of human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid and a decline in serum and cervical mucus antibodies against human papillomavirus antigens
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Removal of cancerous cervical tissue infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) may eliminate HPV antibodies in blood and cervical mucus. Researchers analyzed HPV antibody levels in 23 women before and after cancerous cervical tissue was surgically removed. Sixteen to 27 months after surgery, four women still had cancer on the surface of the cervix while 19 women had no cancer. The 19 women without cancer also did not show HPV antibodies in blood or cervical mucus, whereas the four with cancer did. Before surgery, 18 women were found to have HPV antibodies. HPV infection may cause cancer on the surface of the cervix, which may become invasive cervical cancer if it remains untreated.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 1996
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Coloposcopic and histopathologic evaluation of women participating in population-based screening for human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid persistence
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Evaluation of colposcopic and histopathological findings in women screened for cervical human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid persistence is presented. Histopathology from colposcopically directed biopsies confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or 3 in 28 of 100 of the women with human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid persistence and in 2 of 95 among controls.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 2005
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A population-based five-year follow-up study of cervical human papillomavirus infection
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Most women with cervical human papillomavirus infection will eventually clear the infection. In a study of 90 women, 92% of those who tested positive for papillomavirus had cleared the virus five years later. Papillomavirus type 16 was the only virus that persisted.
Publication Name: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9378
Year: 2000
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